Grant Sanderson (from 3Blue1Brown) discusses the briefly brilliant discovery of Paterson Primes. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓

See all three videos in this series - Grant's Prime Pattern Trilogy: https://bit.ly/PrimePatternTrilogy

Grant's own false pattern video:    • Researchers thought this was a bug (B...  

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Grant on the Numberphile Podcast:    • The Hope Diamond (with 3blue1brown) -...  

With thanks to Michael Colognori for computing the big prime list.

The Paterson Primes on OEIS: https://oeis.org/A065722

Correction at 1:20 - 5 (not 17) is 11 in base 4, - still prime of course.

And with thanks to Patrick Paterson - of course.

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