[seqfan] Richard Guy,100 today

Chris Thompson cet1 at cam.ac.uk
Fri Sep 30 20:11:56 CEST 2016


We probably ought not to let today pass without noting that it is
Richard Guy's 100th birthday.

There is so much we owe to him, but perhaps the single invention?
discovery? that is most relevant to OEIS is the famous

The Strong Law of Small Numbers
  The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol.95, No.8 (Oct 1988), pp.697-712
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2322249
The Second Strong Law of Small Numbers
  Mathematics Magazine, Vol.63, No.1 (Feb 1990), pp.3-20
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2691503

And if anyone wants to complete the factorisation of any Fermat number
2^(2^n)+1 for n>=12 and claim $10, they still have a few hours left to
do so ... [ http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=18640 ]

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk




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