Sunday, October 16, 2022

Primes and particles

 Recently i realized, that primes are similar to "elementary particles" of arithmetic i.e. other numbers can be constructed from primes but primes cannot be constructed from other numbers. 

In that regard, making a note of a paper i came across about how primes are related to the physical world

  1. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-chemist-shines-light-on-a-surprising-prime-number-pattern-20180514/ 
  2. on Particles and Primes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07175 . This paper is quite heavy but a good opportunity to introduce myself to the terminology outlined therein such as
    1. associative normed division algebras C and H (ie C (the complex numbers); H (the quaternions).)

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Philosophy of software design

 Liked this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY