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The Game of Life and the Prime Number Theorem

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Speaker: 
Gunther Cornelissen
Affiliation: 
Utrecht University
Date: 
Tue, 06/05/2025 - 15:00 - 15:25
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We explain a curious coincidence between fixed points of certain cellular automata and of certain polynomial iterates, and show how this provides an analogue of the Prime Number Theorem (joint work with Jakub Byszewski).

 

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