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Oylum VATANSEVER GOOD EXAMPLES IN EDUCATION

BEST PRACTICES
INSPIRING PROJECTS

A GIANT MATHS DISCOVERY!

YOUNG TURKISH STUDENTS MAKE HISTORY IN THE DIGITAL WORLD.
RİZE TOBB SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL, RİZE called ‘GAP’ (Geometric Prime Polynomial).
This shows they are very smart and creative.
The Big News
Two clever students from Rize TOBB A Global Success
Science High School are now famous in the Thanks to their amazing work, their
world of maths! Elif Beyza Özer and İrem discovery is now in the OEIS. The
Yıldız found a very, very big prime number. OEIS is a well-known digital library for
This special number has exactly 11,329 mathematicians and computer scientists.
digits! Imagine writing that down. It is so If your work is in the OEIS, it means it is
long that it would take many pages. completely new and true. Experts checked key. It is very hard for bad people to guess
these numbers. Because of Elif and İrem’s
How Did They Find It? their work carefully. Now, our students are new 11,329-digit number, our data and
helping global science!
Finding a giant number is not easy. Usually, digital future will be much safer.
people need thousands of computers to Why Are Big Numbers Important? Well Done!
find big numbers. But Elif and İrem did You might ask, “Why do we need such big
not use giant computers. They used their numbers?” The answer is cybersecurity! We are very proud of Elif and İrem, and of
own clever maths method! They worked Prime numbers keep our digital world their teacher, Oğuz Serdar Uzunlar. This
very hard with their teacher, Oğuz Serdar safe. They lock our private messages and is a fantastic international success. We
Uzunlar. They used geometry and special Internet bank accounts. Computers use hope they continue to do great things in
triangles to develop a new, fast formula two giant prime numbers to make a secret science!

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