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Terry, 57 is not a prime
- Tomte 3y ago"57 is not a prime" is not the title.
- jjgreen 3y agoThe referenced piece is the comment which does not have a title as such; I hope the title I gave it accurately summarises the content.
- surprisetalk 3y agoI would change the title to "Terry, 57 is not a prime."
- jjgreen 3y agoThat's a better title -- thanks!
- Tomte 3y agoRight, I didn't notice that. I apologize.
- rurban 3y agoReferring to terry tao's latest paper on arxiv "UNDECIDABILITY OF TRANSLATIONAL MONOTILINGS" > From the domino problem to a decorated p1 × p2-adic Sudoku puzzle > In this section we will prove Theorem 3.2. We will need two distinct primes p1, p2 obeying (4.3); for instance, we can take > p1 = 53; p2 = 57 > although the precise values of these primes will not be of significance to our arguments as long as they satisfy the largeness condition (4.3). In chess we would mark that line with ?? (a blunder)
- jonjacky 3y ago57 is called the "Grothendieck Prime" after another eminent mathematician who erroneously said it was prime. Maybe Terry was making an inside joke? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)