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Prime time - Two computer science students and their professor prove
that testing for primality is easy - a result that has eluded
mathematicians for centuries.
Elements of Grace - The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
is currently showing a small exhibition of two suites of
photo-etchings with mathematical components by the Canadian artist
Catherine M Stewart (5 September - 31 October 2002). "Elements of
Grace" is a collection of 12 photo-etchings which combine diagrams
from Newton's 'Principia Mathematica' (1729) with photodetails of the
human body. "Copernican Notes" is a suite of multiple plate etchings
in which text and diagrams from Copernicus' 'On the Revolutions of
Heavenly Spheres' (1543) are overlaid upon photographic images of
moving figures. Julia Hawkins of the MMP reports.
Happy reading from the Plus team.
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