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
Hon, Giora
Stigler, Stephen M.
Edwards, Harold M.
Purkert, Walter
Neumann, Olaf
Reichardt, Hans
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Historia Mathematica
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
Publishers
Teubner
Kluwer Academic
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Pantheon Books
E. Rauner Verlag
Crítica
Concepts
Mathematics
Number theory; number concept
Prime numbers
Philosophy of mathematics
Symmetry
Computer science
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Legendre, Adrien Marie
Dedekind, Richard
Kronecker, Leopold
Hilbert, David
Fermat, Pierre de
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Germany
China
Poland
United States
France
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
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