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Scientific american june 2010 contents departments scientific american issn 00368733, volume 302, number 6, june 2010, published monthly by scientific american, a division of nature america, inc. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the u. The spacecraft had mapped the cosmic microwave background cmb radiation, light emitted more than billion years ago just after the big bang. The purpose of the book is to shed light on the growing distance between mainstream america and the scientific community. Scientific american is the essential guide to the most aweinspiring advances in science and. Oct 28, 2009 scientific american used to be a great magazine but like any publishing venture headquartered in new york, it has gradually drifted into liberal neverneverland. Much of the material is taken from the strong law of small numbers, an unpublished paper by richard kenneth guy. Scientific american, v243 n6 p1828 dec 1980 some patterns in prime numbers and their implications for general theorems are presented.
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