On Thursday, November 29, Jim Burdick will present “An Imposition of Order: A New Construct and Its Consequences” at 3 p.m. in Huber Hall, Room 215. His presentation is part of the college colloquium series.
Burdick, of the information technology office, has independently researched this topic for thirty-five years. He proposes that by “imposing an explicit ordering rule on the set of natural numbers, certain consequences arise in their behavior under arithmetic operations. Also, the construction of the set of natural numbers raised to the power 2 is thereby affected and certain aspects of the set of odd prime numbers become clearer. By mapping the set of natural numbers raised to the power 2 into the set of all finite sequences of natural numbers the set of odd prime numbers may be derived.”
He continues, “In a very basic sense, I have found a new way to verify when an odd natural number is a prime number and also call into question whether we need to consider the natural number 2 as a member of the set of prime numbers.”