Prime Theory -- not to be Mocked, or Knocked! My tutor in grad school math at Cambridge was one Shaun Wylie, dead now; a famoso number expert. He was a supervisor at Bletchley where a chappie called Turing worked for him. They broke ENIGMA, that may have won the war -- certainly shortened it by a year or so. Interestingly, the Krauts were so convinced of their profs' bloody brilliance that for years they refused to believe that some bloody non-Aryan Limeys coulda broken it. Thus giving us lotsa running room!
Being a young ignorant prick (now, regrettably, an Old IP), I made stupid jokes like that the number one to the nth power had n divisors. With his modest integrity, he quietly filled me in on some of the practical uses of prime theory for code breaking. And he NEVER just talked about math -- he DID things with it!!
There is indeed " more in heaven and earth, Horatio, than thy philosophy dreams of".
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