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How to Find Something You’ve Never Seen

How to Find Something You’ve Never Seen

FromThe Art of Mathematics


How to Find Something You’ve Never Seen

FromThe Art of Mathematics

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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Nov 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Another seemingly easy problem that’s hard to solve. In fact, it's unsolved. Find an odd perfect number or prove one doesn’t exist. The search involves “spoof” answers, trying to find the right answer (or prove it doesn't exist) by looking at wrong answers. Hey, nothing else has worked.

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Released:
Nov 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Conversations, explorations, conjectures solved and unsolved, mathematicians and beautiful mathematics. No math background required.