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Arithmetic Gas (mathematicalgarden.wordpress.com)
82 points by pizza on Oct 15, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


woahhhhh this is deep:

"The concept of arithmetic gas provides an interesting connection between statistical physics and number theory, for which the Riemann zeta function plays the role of a partition function."

I love stuff like this, that knits together seemingly unrelated concepts. I feel like by reading this article, I am gaining a better understanding of two very difficult topics simultaneously.



I do like this! thank you for sharing!




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