322K views · Sep 7, 2017 · 3:49 · 1 HN recommender · 4 mentions · discussed 2017–2020
Numberphile with Tadashi Tokieda on the Trinity Hall Prime, a prime number whose digits form a picture of the college's coat of arms, left as a gift by a departing mathematician.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as the origin of the prime-number portrait trend and as an example of drawings made with primes.
“I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1].”HN comment, 2018
“I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1].”
Explains a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall
Tadashi is awesome! I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1]. Highly recommend all videos from Numberphile [2] and Fermat's Library [3]. [1] this video [2] link [3] link
Numberphile video that prompted scripts for prime portraits
Here is one script [0] that was posted on Github yesterday, I believe a few others have been popping up ever since this video [1] by Numberphile on Thursday. [0] link [1] this video
Origin video of the prime-drawing trend
Previously on HN, someone posted the The Corpus Christi Prime blog post [1], which was inspired by the Numerphile Trinity Hall Prime video [2]. See also Zachary Abel's Prime Portraits article [3]. [1]: link [2]: this video [3]: link
“A nice example are the drawings using prime numbers.”
Example of drawings made using prime numbers
A nice example are the drawings using prime numbers. For example see "The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile" this video "The Emerging Art of Drawing in Prime Numbers" link
