Timeline for At what times were people interested in prime numbers
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| Jan 27, 2017 at 18:58 | answer | added | Theodore W Palmer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 11:09 | answer | added | Satish | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 21, 2012 at 16:22 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 21, 2012 at 16:22 | history | bounty ended | Gil Kalai | ||
| Oct 19, 2012 at 10:02 | answer | added | H A Helfgott | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 18:50 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 21:18 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | Dear Franz The answers give some nice information about question 1 and I will welcome more information and details. I am specifically asking about prime numbers and I would like to know to what extent they are present in the works of Nicomachus, and Diophantus and about studying them in other cultures/times. Also I am curious about question 2: what can be the explanation for the lost of interest in prime numbers for many centuries. | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 19:58 | answer | added | Richard Stanley | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 16:22 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | I don't understand the question, or why the answers given so far are not what you want. In which respect does your question differ from others where "prime number" is replaced by just about any problem in mathematics covered in the Elements and other works of the Greeks? And as for 1), a quick glance at some history book will reveal that we know next to nothing about when the Greeks studied what - we have Euclid, Nicomachus, and Diophantus, everything else is extrapolation. | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 15:58 | history | bounty started | Gil Kalai | ||
| Sep 11, 2012 at 7:56 | comment | added | Sniper Clown | A link that explains Pasten's reference to Ishango bone+prime numbers planetmath.org/HistoryOfPrimeNumbers.html | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 23:48 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed typo.
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| Sep 10, 2012 at 23:44 | comment | added | Pasten | The Ishango bone is pretty old and curiously has some suspicious prime numbers on it. I'm adding this as a comment because of lack of reasons for considering it as relevant, but I could not resist. P. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 23:28 | answer | added | John Stillwell | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 22:41 | answer | added | Stopple | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 22:31 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | No no no , not at all, and also in the Hellenistic era itself people continued interest in mathematics, even in number theory, but lost interest in prime numbers. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 22:30 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 22:13 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | Isn't that "people largely or even entirely lost their interest in Mathematics for about fifteen centuries", after the end of the Hellenistic era? | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 21:44 | history | asked | Gil Kalai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |