Timeline for Examples of prime numbers in nature [closed]
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| Sep 12, 2021 at 7:35 | history | edited | Stefan Kohl♦ |
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| Dec 26, 2011 at 18:23 | history | undeleted | François G. Dorais | ||
| Dec 26, 2011 at 18:22 | history | locked | François G. Dorais | ||
| Dec 26, 2011 at 17:02 | history | deleted |
user6976 Andy Putman Andrés E. Caicedo |
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| Dec 26, 2011 at 14:10 | comment | added | user6976 | From cicadamania.com/faq.html#a30 :There is a cicada in India called Chremistica that emerges in synch with the World Cup (that is known as the World Cup cicada). Last I heard 4 was not a prime number. | |
| Dec 25, 2011 at 15:21 | history | undeleted |
Joel David Hamkins Andreas Blass Gerald Edgar |
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| Dec 24, 2011 at 2:58 | history | deleted |
Andy Putman user6976 Bill Johnson |
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| Dec 24, 2011 at 2:26 | history | undeleted |
Joel David Hamkins François G. Dorais |
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| Dec 24, 2011 at 1:19 | history | deleted |
user6976 Gjergji Zaimi Andrés E. Caicedo |
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| Aug 30, 2011 at 0:27 | history | closed |
Dan Petersen Bruce Westbury Felipe Voloch Andrés E. Caicedo S. Carnahan♦ |
not a real question | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 9:49 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 22:26 | comment | added | sleepless in beantown | Andy, I'd vote with you to close this. Even edited, the question is not mathematical and the answers are all anecdotal and coincidental. How does primeness or indivisibility by any other integer than $1$ or itself play into the occurence of these incidents of prime numbers in nature? Even with the cicadas, I don't see how the indivisibility of the number of years plays a role. And aren't some families/swarms of cicadas phase-shifted relative to others? | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 7:01 | history | edited | vonjd | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 25, 2010 at 6:55 | vote | accept | vonjd | ||
| Oct 25, 2010 at 3:06 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I waited a while to see if a genuine applied mathematics question would arise from the discussion, but none seems to. I have thus voted to close. | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 0:23 | answer | added | PamNDRome | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 20:52 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by François G. Dorais | ||
| Oct 24, 2010 at 20:41 | answer | added | chris | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 19:44 | answer | added | user6976 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 17:55 | answer | added | David E Speyer | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 17:12 | answer | added | Suvrit | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:56 | comment | added | Dick Palais | I think a good way to interpret this question is as a special case of the more general interesting question: "What are examples of mathematical principles that get used by Nature to accomplish some purpose?" | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:52 | comment | added | Dylan Moreland | Gopal Prasad once remarked in class that his daughter had found in her research that ants "use" the Chinese remainder theorem. I can't recall any more than that or her name, unfortunately. | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:47 | comment | added | vonjd | @Suvrit: Interesting comment. The question is: Are there two genders because "2" is prime? I don't think so... (but who knows).<br>I would think more into the direction of some sequence of primes or at least bigger primes in nature. | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:44 | comment | added | Suvrit | does stuff like "there are (usually) two genders" count as an example of prime-numbers in nature? Or that there are several situations in nature where there is a dichotomy. Or am I thinking in the wrong direction? | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:43 | comment | added | Willie Wong | While this is a somewhat interesting question, I couldn't help but think that mathematicians perhaps ought to be the last bunch you want to ask about natural phenomena. Good luck on your research. | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:34 | history | asked | vonjd | CC BY-SA 2.5 |