The Slightly Bungled Mersenne Prime Origin Story - Numberphile

See Objectivity (293 videos and more to come) - https://www.youtube.com/c/objectivityvideos More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Brady Haran is at the Royal Society looking at the book which resulted in the name "Mersenne Primes". Mersenne Prime videos on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKsTwVXpLscZdfiiqAkkGCA The Royal Society library: https://royalsociety.org/about-us/what-we-do/collections/visitors/ Translation and explanation of the key section from Cogitata Physico-Mathematica - https://t5k.org/mersenne/LukeMirror/lit/lit_069s.htm Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - https://www.mersenne.org Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Numberphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://bit.ly/numberphile-janestreet NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Videos by Brady Haran Numberphile T-Shirts and Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos across all channels: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/ Sign up for (occasional) emails: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9