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What is the Riemann Hypothesis, and why does it matter?

Prof. Ken Ono (University of Virginia, USA) gave a talk on 21st April, 2021 on “What is the Riemann Hypothesis, and why does it matter?”. The full video of the talk is available in our YouTube channel as well as below. A list of all past and future webinars are

Number Theory in Cryptography

Number Theory in Cryptography

Dr. Gautam Kalita of IIIT Guwahati delivered a talk in a series organized by Kaziranga University, Assam in association with Gonit Sora on ‘Number Theory in Cryptography’. The video of the talk can be viewed in our YouTube channel as well as below.

Prime divisors in an arithmetic progression

Arithmetic Progression

Prime divisors in an arithmetic progression

A webinar by Dr. Shanta Laishram of ISI, Delhi was organized by Gonit Sora in association with G. C. College, Silchar and Assam Academy of Mathematics, Cachar branch on ‘Prime divisors in an arithmetic progression’. The slides of the talk are available here. The full video of the talk is

A New Prime Number and a Decades Old Problem

A New Prime Number and a Decades Old Problem

Mathematicians are inching towards solving a decades old problem with the discovery of a new big prime number. A new giant prime number has been discovered on 31st October, 2016 in a crowd-sourced effort, through PrimeGrid. PrimeGrid is a platform like GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), where people can

The brand new prime

There is a brand new prime in town! Yes there is. This new prime is huge, I mean reaaaally huge. It is more than $22$ million digits long! This new prime is the latest addition to the class of prime numbers known as Mersenne primes, named after Marin Mersenne, a

Prime Numbers: From Euclid to AKS

Prime Numbers: From Euclid to AKS

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the mind will never penetrate. – Leonhard Euler Prime Numbers Image by Shutterstock Prime numbers have taken the fancy and

Mathematical Quest 4: More about Primes

Mathematical Quest 4: More about Primes

The following was published in Young NE, Vol. 1, Issue 5 (September 2013). We thank the editor of Young NE for permission to post this here. In the last issue of this column I discussed about prime numbers and why they were so useful for us. In this issue I

Mathematical Quest 3: Prime Numbers

Mathematical Quest 3: Prime Numbers

The editor of the English section of Gonit Sora, writes a monthly column devoted to mathematics in a teen magazine called Young NE. The editor of Young NE was kind enough to grant us permission to republish the column after it appears on print. Below is the column that appeared

A geeky party trick

A geeky party trick

You are at a friend’s place having good time together, watching TV, maybe playing classic video games, or whatever you are in mood for. Soon it all gets pretty boring. You are in mood for some fun and you want to have a bet with your friend over a