14-year-old won a prestigious award for his discoveries on 'antiprime'

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Akilan Sankaran, a 14-year-old from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has gained recognition for his innovative work in mathematics, specifically in the realm of antiprime numbers, also known as highly composite numbers. Despite his commitments to sports and music, he developed a computer program that enhances the performance of various applications. This achievement earned him the prestigious $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize at the Broadcom MASTERS competition, which showcases exceptional science and engineering talent among middle school students. The discussion also highlights the concept of antiprime numbers, which are integers with more divisors than any smaller positive integer, and references additional resources for further understanding of this mathematical topic.
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Akilan Sankaran, 14, is on his school's varsity track team and plays the piano, the flute and drums — and yet somehow he still found time to devise a computer program that could speed up some of your favorite apps.

That program won Akilan, who's from Albuquerque, N.M., the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the top award in the Broadcom MASTERS, a highly competitive science and engineering competition for middle school students.

What's an antiprime number, aka highly composite number?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
 
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Astronuc said:
What's an antiprime number, aka highly composite number?

Yes, I think so.

Here's a Numberphile about highly composite numbers [anti-primes] (this predates Akilan's project, but should still provide a little background):

 
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