{"id":8778,"date":"2014-05-02T09:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T01:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:02:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:02:21","slug":"friday-math-movie-falling-in-love-with-primes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-falling-in-love-with-primes-8778","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Falling in love with primes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this (mostly) entertaining talk, Adam Spencer explains the story behind monster primes. It's great to find someone who is enthusiastic about his subject matter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B4xOFsygwr4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>A <b>prime<\/b> number, of course, has exactly 2 factors - 1 and itself. The first few primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ... The number 1 is not considered to be a prime.<\/p>\n<p>Primes are important in many fields of  mathematics, more recently in the area of encryption, used in all manner of security situations. There is a constant race to find larger and larger primes, because they help to make encryption that much more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Spencer mentions the largest current prime, which is around 12.5 million digits long.<\/p>\n<p>Monster, indeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-falling-in-love-with-primes-8778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2014\/05\/prime-numbers.png\" alt=\"Monster prime numbers\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nComedian Adam Spencer gives us the lowdown on finding monster prime numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}