The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile

Numberphile · 321.7K views · 2017-09-07 · 3:49

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Numberphile with Tadashi Tokieda on the Trinity Hall Prime, a prime number whose digits form a picture of the college's coat of arms, left as a gift by a departing mathematician.

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Cited as the origin of the prime-number portrait trend and as an example of drawings made with primes.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2017–2020

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Recreational & visual math Pure mathematics

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luisb · 2018-03 · Strong recommendation
Tadashi is awesome! I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1]. Highly recommend all videos from Numberphile [2] and Fermat's Library [3]. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]
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gus_massa · 2020-11 · Reference
A nice example are the drawings using prime numbers. For example see "The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile" [VIDEO] "The Emerging Art of Drawing in Prime Numbers" [LINK]
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jamessb · 2018-01 · Reference
Previously on HN, someone posted the The Corpus Christi Prime blog post [1], which was inspired by the Numerphile Trinity Hall Prime video [2]. See also Zachary Abel's Prime Portraits article [3]. [1]: [LINK] [2]: [VIDEO] [3]: [LINK]
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