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  1. Watching a mathematician speak some very interesting words about basic #numberTheory ... I say speak, but this seems to be a mathematician who is used to lecturing large halls, and he's addressing what I expect is a small phone on the table in front of him, that is to say he's yelling everything as if he still feels he has to fill a five-hundred-seat theatre with highly percussive enthusiasm. It's fun for short periods but the transcript might be more manageable before long.

    #awesomeLungs

  2. GPT5.6 Sol: "If decompwlj became a standard mathematical lens"

    The most important conceptual impact would be a change of question. Instead of asking only, “What is the next term?” or “How fast does the sequence grow?”, researchers could also ask:
    How does the next additive jump expose—or hide—the multiplicative structure behind the present term?
    That is a legitimate and surprisingly rich question.

    decompwlj.com/GPT5.6Sol_decomp

    For privacy: web.archive.org/web/2026081112

    #decompwlj #math #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT #GPT56Sol #GPTSol #sequence #numbers #graph #PrimeNumbers #NumberTheory #arithmetic #threejs #FTA #classification #research #FundamentalTheoremOfArithmetic #TwinPrimes #twin #primes #conjecture #sieveOfEratosthenes #Eratosthenes #sieve

  3. GPT5.6 Sol: "If decompwlj became a standard mathematical lens"

    The most important conceptual impact would be a change of question. Instead of asking only, “What is the next term?” or “How fast does the sequence grow?”, researchers could also ask:
    How does the next additive jump expose—or hide—the multiplicative structure behind the present term?
    That is a legitimate and surprisingly rich question.

    decompwlj.com/GPT5.6Sol_decomp

    For privacy: web.archive.org/web/2026081112

    #decompwlj #math #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT #GPT56Sol #GPTSol #sequence #numbers #graph #PrimeNumbers #NumberTheory #arithmetic #threejs #FTA #classification #research #FundamentalTheoremOfArithmetic #TwinPrimes #twin #primes #conjecture #sieveOfEratosthenes #Eratosthenes #sieve

  4. We see the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and the sieve of Eratosthenes in the decomposition into weight × level + jump of natural numbers. Applied to prime numbers this decomposition leads to a new classification of primes.

    #decompwlj #math #mathematics #maths #sequence #OEIS #graph #numbers #primes #PrimeNumbers #FundamentalTheoremOfArithmetic #sequences #NumberTheory #classification #integer #decomposition #number #theory #equation #graphs #SieveofEratosthenes #sieve #Eratosthenes #fundamental #theorem #arithmetic #research

  5. We see the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and the sieve of Eratosthenes in the decomposition into weight × level + jump of natural numbers. Applied to prime numbers this decomposition leads to a new classification of primes.

    #decompwlj #math #mathematics #maths #sequence #OEIS #graph #numbers #primes #PrimeNumbers #FundamentalTheoremOfArithmetic #sequences #NumberTheory #classification #integer #decomposition #number #theory #equation #graphs #SieveofEratosthenes #sieve #Eratosthenes #fundamental #theorem #arithmetic #research

  6. Niels Abel was born 224 years ago, on August 5, 1802. At just 21, he proved that no general algebraic formula can solve equations of degree 5, a problem that had challenged mathematicians for roughly 250 years.

    Short on money, Abel paid the printer himself and condensed his proof into just six pages to keep costs down. He sent a copy to Gauss, but never received a response.

    Abel died of tuberculosis at just 26. Two days later, a letter arrived announcing that he had been appointed professor in Berlin.

    A breakthrough recognized too late.

    #NielsAbel #Mathematics #MathHistory #HistoryOfMathematics #Mathematician #Algebra #AbstractAlgebra #QuinticEquation #Quintic #GaloisTheory #MathematicalHistory #MathFacts #ScienceHistory #STEMHistory #STEM #MathematicalBreakthrough #MathematicalGenius #Norway #NorwegianHistory #CarlFriedrichGauss #Equations #NumberTheory #PureMathematics #MathEducation #ScienceCommunication #OnThisDay #August5 #History #MathematicsLovers #MathTwitter

  7. Niels Abel was born 224 years ago, on August 5, 1802. At just 21, he proved that no general algebraic formula can solve equations of degree 5, a problem that had challenged mathematicians for roughly 250 years.

    Short on money, Abel paid the printer himself and condensed his proof into just six pages to keep costs down. He sent a copy to Gauss, but never received a response.

    Abel died of tuberculosis at just 26. Two days later, a letter arrived announcing that he had been appointed professor in Berlin.

    A breakthrough recognized too late.

    #NielsAbel #Mathematics #MathHistory #HistoryOfMathematics #Mathematician #Algebra #AbstractAlgebra #QuinticEquation #Quintic #GaloisTheory #MathematicalHistory #MathFacts #ScienceHistory #STEMHistory #STEM #MathematicalBreakthrough #MathematicalGenius #Norway #NorwegianHistory #CarlFriedrichGauss #Equations #NumberTheory #PureMathematics #MathEducation #ScienceCommunication #OnThisDay #August5 #History #MathematicsLovers #MathTwitter