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1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Formulas for primes
Author : Keith Devlin
Published in: Micro-Maths
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The distribution of prime numbers among all whole numbers seems to be so erratic that no simple formula could exist which would produce as its values all, and only, the primes. If by ‘formula’ you mean here ‘polynomial formula’, then this is true. For instance, to take the simplest case of a polynomial formula, namely a linear formula of the form