A Study of the Differences between Consecutive Prime Numbers

dc.contributor.advisor	Calloway, Jean M., 1923-2019
dc.contributor.author	Heath, David C.
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-14T17:10:33Z
dc.date.available	2011-03-14T17:10:33Z
dc.date.issued	1964
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10920/20620
dc.description	19 p.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This paper will present heuristic arguments concerning the distribution of prime numbers and the spacings between consecutive primes. So that the reader will be familiar with some of the background material for this paper, a summary of "Mathematical Sieves" by David Hawkins is given in Appendix I. The important results of this paper are the "random number sieve" and the "proof" of the prime number theorem.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Kalamazoo College	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Kalamazoo College Mathematics Senior Individualized Projects Collection
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Senior Individualized Projects. Mathematics.;
dc.rights	U.S. copyright laws protect this material. Commercial use or distribution of this material is not permitted without prior written permission of the copyright holder.
dc.title	A Study of the Differences between Consecutive Prime Numbers	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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