Article ID: CBB000933579

Hunting Prime Numbers---From Human to Electronic Computers (2010)

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Corry, Leo (Author)


Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Volume: 3
Pages: 21,000 words


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article030105.html (Accessed on June 8, 2010). Part of a special issue.
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Avigad, Jeremy
Babbitt, Donald
Beaney, Michael
Bölling, Reinhard
Boniface, Jacqueline
Bullynck, Maarten
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Historia Mathematica
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Publishers
Atlantic Books
Crítica
E. Rauner Verlag
Kluwer Academic
Pantheon Books
Teubner
Concepts
Mathematics
Number theory; number concept
Prime numbers
Correspondence and corresponding
Philosophy of mathematics
Computer science
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Dedekind, Richard
Hilbert, David
Kronecker, Leopold
Kummer, Ernst Eduard
Legendre, Adrien Marie
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
China
Germany
Poland
United States
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
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