Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems: A Trialogue With Papa Paulo
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Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems: A Trialogue With Papa Paulo

A Trialogue with Papa Paulo

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems: A Trialogue With Papa Paulo

A Trialogue with Papa Paulo

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments? Acknowledgments!
  4. 1. What are Prime Numbers?
  5. 2. Division is Harder than Multiplication
  6. 3. Another Paulo! Is a Dialogue of Three Possible?
  7. 4. How Natural Numbers are Made Out of Primes
  8. 5. Tell Me: Which is the Largest Prime?
  9. 6. Trying Hard to Find Primes
  10. 7. A Formula, A Formula, Please
  11. 8. Paulo Came with a Lasso
  12. 9. Beautiful Old Elementary Arithmetic
  13. 10. The Old Man Still Knows
  14. 11. Can You Tell Me All About Congruences?
  15. 12. Homework Checked
  16. 13. Testing for Primality and Factorization
  17. 14. Fermat Numbers are Friendly. Are They Primes?
  18. 15. This World is Perfect
  19. 16. Unfriendly Numbers from a Friend of Fermat’s
  20. 17. Paying My Debt
  21. 18. Money and Primes
  22. 19. Secret Messages
  23. 20. New Numbers and Functions
  24. 21. Princeps Gauss
  25. 22. Gathering Forces
  26. 23. The After “Math” of Gauss
  27. 24. Primes After Dinner: Bad Dreams?
  28. 25. Primes in Arithmetic Progression
  29. 26. Selling Primes
  30. 27. The Great Prime Mysteries
  31. 28. Mysteries in Sequences: More But Not All
  32. 29. The End and the Beginning
  33. Name Index
  34. Subject Index