Pi hiding in prime regularities
May 19, 2017
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as posted by the channelA story of pi, primes, complex numbers, and how number theory braids them together.
Mathologer on why 4k + 1primes break down as sums of squares
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For those of you curious about the finer details, here's a writeup from the viewer Daniel Flores justifying the final approximation
The fact that only primes that are one above a multiple of four can be expressed as the sum of two squares is known as "Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares"
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Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
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