Patented prime numbers

[Georgi Guninski]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:56:50PM +0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
> On 2014-05-12, 18:25, jim bell wrote:
> > Also, I believe there is a rule that says that laws of nature aren't
> > patentable.  To the extent that primality is a law of nature, it
> > shouldn't be patentable.
> 
> To be pedantic, primes aren't so much a law of *nature*, they're in
> *maths*.  I'm not aware of any law of, e.g., physics that would depend
> on primes, but would love to learn of one, if one exists.
> 
> Fun,
> 
> Stephan


Allegedly Riemann zeta function is related to
physics, though this well might be just
speculations (search the web for ref).

It is more interesting to me if
sqrt(-1), n-dimensional space, etc. are
part of nature...