Monthly Archive for September, 2005

This year’s first Bay Area Mathematical Adventures (BAMA) was with Dan Goldston on twin primes. Unfortunately, I didn’t understand the majority of his presentation. He used Mathematica to create scrolling, animated representations of prime numbers. This was pretty cool, although he didn’t get into much of the actual formulas. Not that I would be able to understand it, anyhow. This level of math is above me. I did like his mini-talk on “45 minutes of fame” though–he showed us an article in several newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News. He was even mentioned on Slashdot back in March 2003, for a “breakthrough in prime number theory.”