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Monday, January 16, 2006

17 year cicadas in their prime

The German mathematician Bernhard Riemann discovered a connection between prime numbers and a complex mathematical function called the 'zeta function'. Ever since, mathematicians have laboured to find the rules behind the elusive sequence, which cicadas cleverly use to avoid predators. Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on the BBC.

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