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"After plowing through 45 sums, corresponding to the first 45 non-trivial prime numbers, Kummer finally gave up."

That wasn't as fast as I gave up on that article. I now recall why I struggled with maths in the high school.

Gauss would choose some prime number p, then sum up numbers of the form $latex e^{\frac{2iπn^2}{p}}$.

Aaaaaand I'm out.

If that's supposed to rhyme with boss then you really don't know how to pronounce Gauss.

"...And I was wrong - not for the first time."

That is the humility of a science/math outlook.  Richard Feynman was notorious for getting questioners to 1. Putting the problem into maths, and 2. To keep on simplifying the math.

assjuice: If that's supposed to rhyme with boss then you really don't know how to pronounce Gauss.

If you know the Lonely Island song, it is closer to rhyming with Sowce (sauce, but a hard 'o' instead of 'ah').

Which admittedly is still a feminine rhyme, but closer.

Quantumbunny: assjuice: If that's supposed to rhyme with boss then you really don't know how to pronounce Gauss.

If you know the Lonely Island song, it is closer to rhyming with Sowce (sauce, but a hard 'o' instead of 'ah').

Which admittedly is still a feminine rhyme, but closer.

Isn't it like mouse?

The proof assumes the Riemann hypothesis is true? Kinda weird...

covfefe: Quantumbunny: assjuice: If that's supposed to rhyme with boss then you really don't know how to pronounce Gauss.

If you know the Lonely Island song, it is closer to rhyming with Sowce (sauce, but a hard 'o' instead of 'ah').

Which admittedly is still a feminine rhyme, but closer.

Isn't it like mouse?

I found something that rhymes with Gauss: degauss.

It sounds like "Gaos". Like the nemesis of Gamera. Who BTW, is a friend to all children.

Worse by far is Eular. People say it uler like ruler. But it's really "oiler".

Pointy Tail of Satan: It sounds like "Gaos". Like the nemesis of Gamera. Who BTW, is a friend to all children.

Worse by far is Eular. People say it uler like ruler. But it's really "oiler".

Wait until you hear someone from Denmark pronounce Tycho Brahe.
I couldn't recognize a single syllable.

There's such a thing as a trivial prime?!?!? I'm sorry, it's late, I got THC running through my brain, and I'm reading an article in Quanta Magazine, and it says "Selberg programmed it to calculate the cubic Gauss sums for all the non-trivial primes less than 10,000 - around 600 sums in all. " And I'm all like, "I beg your pardon, good sirs. I was misinformed as to the nature of prime numbers. I thought they were all important." And I just...the only human I know who would GET this and might possibly think this is funny is you. You don't even have to answer this. I just want you to know that knowing you makes me very, very happy.

I just couldn't get over that.

There's such a thing as a trivial prime?!?!? I'm sorry, it's late, I got THC running through my brain, and I'm reading an article in Quanta Magazine, and it says "Selberg programmed it to calculate the cubic Gauss sums for all the non-trivial primes less than 10,000 - around 600 sums in all. " And I'm all like, "I beg your pardon, good sirs. I was misinformed as to the nature of prime numbers. I thought they were all important." And I just...the only human I know who would GET this and might possibly think this is funny is you. You don't even have to answer this. I just want you to know that knowing you makes me very, very happy.

I just couldn't get over that.

I didn't think there were any "non-trivial primes less than 10,000".  Aren't non-trivial primes, like, the really long ones used in cryptography that once you multiply them together you can never factor them out again?

You know more than I do, good poster.

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