Good News? Over to Roger! Mike -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [k4] major number theory breakthrough! Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:54:35 -0500 From: Michael Rosenberg <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: k4 <[email protected]>
you don't see a lot of new discoveries in math, but apparently we've got a huge one in partition theory that may have repercussions everywhere! check it out <http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-theories-reveal-nature-of-numbers.html>! as a bonus, embedded in the article is a 10 minute youtube video that is the best "zoom" into the mandelbrot set i've ever seen. as a teaser, here's the punch line: “We found a function, that we call P, that is like a magical oracle,” Ono says. “I can take any number, plug it into P, and instantly calculate the partitions of that number. P does not return gruesome numbers with infinitely many decimal places. It’s the finite, algebraic formula that we have all been looking for.” mike *k4* | Unsubscribe Now <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=2046954&id_secret=2046954-33800f47&post_id=20110122125439:C0751DE0-2650-11E0-BFCD-ADBDF559ED1D> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
