How many primes are less than one mole?
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Richard E. Crandall, Center for Advanced Computation, Reed College
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Abstract:
Though prime numbers might be thought of as the
jewels of discrete mathematics, our most comprehensive understanding
of the universe of primes comes from complex analysis. The lecturer will
describe ongoing research efforts—such efforts in fact
employing analytic means—to count the primes not exceeding
one mole (call it 6⋅1023).
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