On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:56:50PM +0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote: > On 2014-05-12, 18:25, jim bell wrote: > > Also, I believe there is a rule that says that laws of nature aren't > > patentable. To the extent that primality is a law of nature, it > > shouldn't be patentable. > > To be pedantic, primes aren't so much a law of *nature*, they're in > *maths*. I'm not aware of any law of, e.g., physics that would depend > on primes, but would love to learn of one, if one exists. > > Fun, > > Stephan
Allegedly Riemann zeta function is related to physics, though this well might be just speculations (search the web for ref). It is more interesting to me if sqrt(-1), n-dimensional space, etc. are part of nature...
