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By Deb Russell, About.com Guide to Mathematics since 2002

The Right Stuff

Wednesday October 1, 2003
Ever since man first explored numbers and patterns, the existence of prime numbers has fascinated and perplexed the mathematician. Trying to find an algorithm for recognizing if a number is prime or not has been a unanswered question until three gentlemen who had the right stuff proved that a polynomial time algorithm would address this issue.

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