12 Apr
2006
12 Apr
'06
7:47 p.m.
To me, it looks like Hardy is mostly right, even now. Computer-based communication seems to be the sole killer-application for number theory.
Will someone please disagree?
-- Don Reble djr@nk.ca
Don't primes come up all over in science? I recall there is a species of insect that has massive reproduction every 17 years to avoid competing with other species, and that it needed to be a prime number to avoid species with cycles in the 2 or 3 or 5 year ranges. Aren't primes big in things like crystallography? --Erik N