Are prime numbers special? Insights from the life sciences.
Domestic chick
Perceptual grouping
Prime numbers
Quasi-experiments
Journal
Biology direct
ISSN: 1745-6150
Titre abrégé: Biol Direct
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101258412
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
27 05 2022
27 05 2022
Historique:
received:
18
02
2022
accepted:
09
05
2022
entrez:
26
5
2022
pubmed:
27
5
2022
medline:
31
5
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Prime numbers have been attracting the interest of scientists since the first formulation of Euclid's theorem in 300 B.C. Nowadays, physicists and mathematicians continue to formulate new theorems about prime numbers, trying to comprehensively explain their articulated properties. However, evidence from biology and experimental psychology suggest that prime numbers possess distinctive natural properties that pre-exist human grasping. The present work aims at reviewing the existing literature on prime numbers in the life sciences, including some recent experimental contributions employing newly hatched domestic chicks as animal model to test for spontaneous mechanisms allowing discrimination of primes from non-primes. Our overarching goal is that of discussing some instances of prime numbers in nature, with particular reference to their peculiar, non-mathematical, perceptual properties.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35619145
doi: 10.1186/s13062-022-00326-w
pii: 10.1186/s13062-022-00326-w
pmc: PMC9137056
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
11Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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