It’s simple. Prove the Goldbach Conjecture: Every even integer greater than two is the sum of two primes. Shouldn’t be too hard, right? Figure it out and you’ll win a cool mil from the Clay Mathematics Institute, and you’ll probably get a Fields Medal — the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize as long as […]
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Belphegor’s Prime
And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.” — Numbers 25:3 What was it about Baalpeor, a god of the Moab people, that so ticked off the Lord? Presumably it was of his reputation for seducing people “by suggesting to them ingenious inventions that will make them […]