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57 (number)

57 (fifty-seven) is the natural number following 56 and preceding 58. It is a composite number.

57 is semiprime, a Blum integer, and a Leyland number.

The split Lie algebra E⁠7+1/2 has a 57-dimensional Heisenberg algebra as its nilradical, and the smallest possible homogeneous space for E8 is also 57-dimensional.

Although fifty-seven is not prime, it is jokingly known as the Grothendieck prime after a legend in which the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck gave it as an example of a prime number, not realizing it was divisible by three. The same error was made by another famous mathematician, Hermann Weyl, in a published article.

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