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Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers

TED Talks201300:17:17Creative Commons
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They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down -- what's not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math geek, shares his passion for these odd numbers, and for the mysterious magic of math.

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TED.com

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, humor, math, TED2013, 2013

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