Comments on: An Alternative Illustration of Prime Number Distribution http://www.kerrywong.com/2009/09/06/an-alternative-illustration-of-prime-number-distribution/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nate Strech http://www.kerrywong.com/2009/09/06/an-alternative-illustration-of-prime-number-distribution/comment-page-1/#comment-99232 Nate Strech Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:32:08 +0000 http://www.kerrywong.com/?p=1441#comment-99232 @JohnG Good question! I just read the autobiography of the savant Daniel Tammet in which he describes a charity event where he verbally recalls the first 22,514 digits of the number pi from memory. It seemed far more likely that his brain was “seeing” the row you speak of rather than performing some astronomical subconscious calculation. I suppose it also seems more likely that his photographic memory stored that much info along with the “number landscape” he describes visualizing. I really wonder how many random letters (A-J) he could recall in sequence if provided time to memorize. @KerryW Thanks for sharing – this illustrates how we inferior brained humans almost “see” that darn row. @JohnG

Good question!

I just read the autobiography of the savant Daniel Tammet in which he describes a charity event where he verbally recalls the first 22,514 digits of the number pi from memory. It seemed far more likely that his brain was “seeing” the row you speak of rather than performing some astronomical subconscious calculation.

I suppose it also seems more likely that his photographic memory stored that much info along with the “number landscape” he describes visualizing. I really wonder how many random letters (A-J) he could recall in sequence if provided time to memorize.

@KerryW

Thanks for sharing – this illustrates how we inferior brained humans almost “see” that darn row.

]]> By: John Graffio http://www.kerrywong.com/2009/09/06/an-alternative-illustration-of-prime-number-distribution/comment-page-1/#comment-43824 John Graffio Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:48:49 +0000 http://www.kerrywong.com/?p=1441#comment-43824 I wonder if anybody out there is working on discovering a mathematical space where prime number distribution appears linear, i.e., non-logarithmic in this case. I say this because some savants who can calculate astronomically large numbers in their heads say they can "see" the numbers in a row. So I wonder if the brains of these individuals are able to do this mapping by some unknown mechanism. I wonder if anybody out there is working on discovering a mathematical space where prime number distribution appears linear, i.e., non-logarithmic in this case. I say this because some savants who can calculate astronomically large numbers in their heads say they can “see” the numbers in a row. So I wonder if the brains of these individuals are able to do this mapping by some unknown mechanism.

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