A variant of the Euclid-Mullin sequence containing every prime
Number Theory
2016-07-07 v1
Abstract
We consider a generalization of Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes and show that it leads to variants of the Euclid-Mullin sequence that provably contain every prime number.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.08929,
title = {A variant of the Euclid-Mullin sequence containing every prime},
author = {Andrew R. Booker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08929},
year = {2016}
}
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