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Prime number formulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Nick Mackinnon
Nick Mackinnon*
Affiliation:
Winchester College
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The impossibility of a prime number formula seems to have entered the mathematical mythology. As I am continually challenged nonetheless to produce such formulae I thought I would invent some elementary ones. To put them in context I’ll first discuss some classic, and some quite recent, results.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 71 , Issue 456 , June 1987 , pp. 113 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1987

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