Aperiodical News Roundup – August/September 2026
Here’s a round-up of some news from the last couple of months.
Mathematical discoveries
Lerch primes are defined as odd primes that divide their Lerch quotients (obviously) and until now we only knew four of them existed. This month, Veljko Vranić has found the fifth Lerch prime: it’s 42,447,347, if you were wondering. (via the SeqFan mailing list)
Ruslan Mizhaev has written about an octahedron of genus 3 which is equivelar (all vertices have the same degree and all faces the same number of edges). The author had first described the shape in 2020 – the new work gives…
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