Are There Functions Defining Prime Numbers?

Paulo Ribenboim
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Paulo Ribenboim: Queen’s University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Chapter 3 in The New Book of Prime Number Records, 1996, pp 179-212 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To obtain prime numbers, it is natural to ask for functions f defined for all natural numbers n ≥ 1, which are computable in practice and produce some or all prime numbers.

Keywords: Prime Number; Number Field; Class Number; Arithmetic Progression; Diophantine Equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0759-7_4

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