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 Inter…