Michael Somos

Michael Somos is an American mathematician, currently a visiting scholar in Georgetown University. In the late eighties he proposed an intriguing conjecture about certain polynomial recurrences, now called Somos sequences,^[1] that surprisingly in some cases contain only integers. Somos' quadratic recurrence constant is also named after him.

Notes

1. ^ Jim Propp (2006-08-08). "The Somos Sequence Site". University of Massachusetts Lowell. http://faculty.uml.edu/jpropp/somos.html. Retrieved 2009-10-13. 

References

• Michael Somos and Robert Haas, "A Linked Pair of Sequences Implies the Primes Are Infinite", The American Mathematical Monthly, volume 110, number 6 (June – July, 2003), pp. 539–540

External links

• Michael Somos's homepage
• Somos sequence in mathworld

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