Thursday, June 21, 2018

Google on "statistical bias in the distribution of prime numbers"

Curiously enough, as attested by the image below taken on June 20th (click on it to enlarge it), when you search Google for "statistical bias in the distribution of prime numbers," the top two pages displayed are two different PDF versions of my paper on a recently discovered bias in the distribution of primes.


Keep in mind that how Google displays its search results may depend on your location, so you may not see exactly the same thing, although you should (probably) still see these two pages on the first page of Google results. At least, in June 2018, as the positions of sites in Google searchers change with time too.

I am glad to see these pages to rank that high on Google, at least for this keyword that is rather natural. Since the effect discussed in my paper was overlooked for so long and promoting it via more scholarly channels is not always easy (it may take some time to get this this paper posted to sites that attract greater attention of professional mathematicians), it's good to see that Google can be helpful in spreading the word about this effect.

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