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The sesquicentennial of the prime number
Matthew Baker
The year 2026 marks the 150th anniversary of a remarkable achievement in mathematics: in 1876, the French mathematician Édouard Lucas showed that the 39-digit number $M_{127} := 2^…
math.NT2026
Zolotarev's Magical Proof of Quadratic Reciprocity
Matthew Baker
We present a creative reimagining of Zolotarev's classical proof of the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity.