PICTURESQUE PRIMES

anatoly fomenko's 1971 "homotopy groups of spheres"

henry moore's "spindle piece" seen outside hayes hall, kenyon college

- My project for Kenyon College’s Scientific Computing Seminar, Spring 2023
- Completed under the guidance of Dr. Judy Holdener
- Inspired by Zachary Abel’s 2016 work, these are “prime portraits”
(also inspired by just about everything Robert Bosch has done)
- The number given by reading the entire image as a number from left-to-right, top-to-bottom is a prime number

You read that correct! These are numbers with thousands of digits
Lucky for us, large primes are nothing new, and these numbers pale in comparison to the top dogs
(but I’d like to see a Mersenne prime try to look like Weezer!)
Why are we lucky? Because we stand on the shoulders of giants!
in other words, there are many ‘fast’ primality algorithms
we employed the Miller-Rabin primality test which gives a tunable error
i.e., the chance that a composite number is concluded prime by the test
namely, the error is provably (1/4)^k after k trials
we ran 100 trials for each number
(eventually, we hope to provide ECPP certificates for each number)

PICTURESQUE PRIMES

^{sneak peak of a related project soon to come:}

^{stay tuned ^_^}