theory. His 1798 conjecture of the prime number theorem was rigorously proved by Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin in 1896. Legendre did an impressive...
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as ln(x) or loge(x). Legendre's constant is a mathematical constant occurring in a formula constructed by Adrien-Marie Legendre to approximate the behavior...
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The abc conjecture (also known as the Oesterlé–Masser conjecture) is a conjecture in number theory that arose out of a discussion of Joseph Oesterlé and...
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Landau's problems (redirect from Near-square prime conjecture)
conjecture: Are there infinitely many primes p such that p + 2 is prime? Legendre's conjecture: Does there always exist at least one prime between consecutive...
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Fermat's Last Theorem (redirect from Fermat conjecture)
In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b,...
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number theorem Legendre's conjecture and Andrica's conjecture, much weaker but still unproven upper bounds on prime gaps Firoozbakht's conjecture Maier's theorem...
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conjecture Kelvin's conjecture Kouchnirenko's conjecture Mertens conjecture Pólya conjecture, 1919 (1958) Ragsdale conjecture Schoenflies conjecture (disproved...
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Multiplicative order Discrete logarithm Quadratic residue Euler's criterion Legendre symbol Gauss's lemma (number theory) Congruence of squares Luhn formula...
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List of unsolved problems in mathematics (category Conjectures)
greater than 2 {\displaystyle 2} are the sum of two prime numbers. Legendre's conjecture: for every positive integer n {\displaystyle n} , there is a prime...
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is the sum of a fixed number of kth powers. 1796 — Adrien-Marie Legendre conjectures the prime number theorem. 1801 — Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Carl...
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