“Mills' Constant”的概念、定义、习题解题方法及翻译-数学辞典

单词

Mills' Constant

释义

Mills' Constant

N.B. A detailed on-line essay by S. Finchwas the starting point for this entry.

Mills (1947) proved the existence of a constant such that

(1)

is Prime for all

, where

is the Floor Function. It is not, however, known if

isIrrational. Mills' proof was based on the following theorem by Hoheisel (1930) and Ingham (1937).Let

be the

th Prime, then there exists a constant

such that

(2)

for all

. This has more recently been strengthened to

(3)

(Mozzochi 1986). If the Riemann Hypothesis is true, then Cramér (1937) showed that

(4)

(Finch).

Hardy and Wright (1979) point out that, despite the beauty of such Formulas, they do not have any practicalconsequences. In fact, unless the exact value of is known, the Primes themselves must be known in advance todetermine . A generalization of Mills' theorem to an arbitrary sequence of Positive Integersis given as an exercise by Ellison and Ellison (1985). Consequently, infinitely many values for other than the number are possible.

References

Caldwell, C. ``Mills' Theorem--A Generalization.'' http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/proofs/A3n.html.

Ellison, W. and Ellison, F. Prime Numbers. New York: Wiley, pp. 31-32, 1985.

Finch, S. ``Favorite Mathematical Constants.'' http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/mills/mills.html

Hardy, G. H. and Wright, E. M. An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1979.

Mills, W. H. ``A Prime-Representing Function.'' Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53, 604, 1947.

Mozzochi, C. J. ``On the Difference Between Consecutive Primes.'' J. Number Th. 24, 181-187, 1986.

Ribenboim, P. The Book of Prime Number Records, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 135 and 191-193, 1989.

Ribenboim, P. The Little Book of Big Primes. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 109-110, 1991.

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