Aperiodical News Roundup – October 2024

Here’s a roundup of some of the maths-related news from this month we didn’t otherwise cover here! Maths News The obvious big maths news this month is that a new Mersenne prime has been found: it’s now official that 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1 is a prime, an indivisible whopper with almost twice as many digits as the previous…