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Reo Franklin Fortune (1903–1979) was a New Zealand social anthropologist, lecturer in social anthropology at the Cambridge University, specialist in Melanesian language and culture. He originally trained as a psychologist. He was married to Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an United States cultural anthropology, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
, with whom he undertook field studies in New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, from 1928 to 1935. He is also known for his contribution to mathematics with Fortunate number
Fortunate number

A Fortunate number, named after Reo Fortune, for a given positive integer n is the smallest integer m > 1 such that p'n# + m is a prime number, where the primorial p'n# is the product of the first n prime numbers....
 theory.








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Reo Franklin Fortune (1903–1979) was a New Zealand social anthropologist, lecturer in social anthropology at the Cambridge University, specialist in Melanesian language and culture. He originally trained as a psychologist. He was married to Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an United States cultural anthropology, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
, with whom he undertook field studies in New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, from 1928 to 1935. He is also known for his contribution to mathematics with Fortunate number
Fortunate number

A Fortunate number, named after Reo Fortune, for a given positive integer n is the smallest integer m > 1 such that p'n# + m is a prime number, where the primorial p'n# is the product of the first n prime numbers....
 theory.

Further reading

  • "Reo FORTUNE (1903-1979)", Canberra Anthropology 3:105-108.