The Book of Prime Number Records by Paulo Ribenboim.

This text originated as a lecture delivered November 20, 1984, at Queen's University, in the undergraduate colloquim series established to honor Professors A. J. Coleman and H. W. Ellis and to acknow­ ledge their long lasting interest in the quality of teaching under­ graduate students. In anot...

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Main Author: Ribenboim, Paulo (Author)
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Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
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505 0 |a 1. How Many Prime Numbers Are There? -- I. Euclid’s Proof -- II. Kummer’s Proof -- III. Polya’s Proof -- IV. Euler’s Proof -- V. Thue’s Proof -- VI. Two-and-a-Half Forgotten Proofs -- VII. Washington’s Proof -- VIII. Fiirstenberg’s Proof -- 2. How to Recognize Whether a Natural Number Is a Prime? -- I. The Sieve of Eratosthenes -- II. Some Fundamental Theorems on Congruences -- III. Classical Primality Tests Based on Congruences -- IV. Lucas Sequences -- V. Classical Primality Tests Based on Lucas Sequences -- VI. Fermat Numbers -- VII. Mersenne Numbers -- VIII. Pseudoprimes -- Addendum on the Congruence an?k ? bn?k (mod n) -- IX. Carmichael Numbers -- X. Lucas Pseudoprimes -- XI. Last Section on Primality Testing and Factorization! -- 3. Are There Functions Defining Prime Numbers? -- I. Functions Satisfying Condition (a) -- II. Functions Satisfying Condition (b) -- III. Functions Satisfying Condition (c) -- 4. How Are the Prime Numbers Distributed? -- I. The Growth of ?(x) -- II. The nth Prime and Gaps -- III. Twin Primes -- IV. Primes in Arithmetic Progression -- V. Primes in Special Sequences -- VI. Goldbach’s Famous Conjecture -- VII. The Waring-Goldbach Problem -- VIII. The Distribution of Pseudoprimes and of Carmichael Numbers -- 5. Which Special Kinds of Primes Have Been Considered? -- I. Regular Primes -- II. Sophie Germain Primes -- III. Wieferich Primes -- IV. Wilson Primes -- V. Repunits and Similar Numbers -- VI. Primes with Given Initial and Final Digits -- VII. Numbers k × 2n ± 1 -- VIII. Primes and Second-Order Linear Recurrence Sequences -- IX. The NSW-Primes -- 6. Heuristic and Probabilistic Results About Prime Numbers -- I. Prime Values of Linear Polynomials -- II. Prime Values of Polynomials of Arbitrary Degree -- III. Some Probabilistic Estimates -- IV. The Density of the Set of Regular Primes -- Conclusion -- Dear Reader -- Citations for Some Possible Prizes for Work on the Prime Number Theorem -- A. General References -- B. Specific References -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Conclusion -- Primes up to 10,000 -- Index of Names -- Gallimaufries -- Addenda to the Second Edition. 
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