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The divisor function $\sigma(n)$ sums the divisors of $n$. We call $n$ abundant when $\sigma(n) - n > n$ and perfect when $\sigma(n) - n = n$. I recently introduced the recursive divisor function $a(n)$, the recursive analog of the divisor…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Thomas Fink

The prime numbers look like a randomly chosen sequence of natural numbers, but there is still no strict theory to determine 'Randomness'. In these years, cryptography has developed a battery of statistical tests for randomness. In this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-19 Wang Liang , Huang Yan

By using Beta Dirichlet series and then Eisenstein series we ca represent primes with first a good approximation and an exact expression. This can be done with arbitrary prime (up to 10^101).

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Simon Plouffe

Let pi(x) denote the number of primes smaller or equal to x. We compare sqrt{pi}(x) with sqrt{R}(x) and sqrt{li}(x), where R(x) and li(x) are the Riemann function and the logarithmic integral, respectively. We show a regularity in the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erika Alvarez , Jean Pestieau

This work proposes a proof of the simplest cubic primes counting problem. It shows that the subset of primes {p = n^3 + 2 is prime : n => 1} is an infinite subset of primes. Further, the expected order of magnitude of the cubic primes…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-02-20 N. A. Carella

Every natural number greater than $2$ can be written as the sum of a prime and a square-free number, and recent work has imposed additional divisibility conditions on the square-free number. We overcome limitations in these works to prove…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Ethan S. Lee , Rowan O'Clarey

The set of short intervals between consecutive primes squared has the pleasant---but seemingly unexploited---property that each interval $s_k:=\{p_k^2, \dots,p_{k+1}^2-1\}$ is fully sieved by the $k$ first primes. Here we take advantage of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Kolbjørn Tunstrøm

The prime-counting function $\pi(x)$ which returns the number of primes smaller or equal to a given number is a topic of interest in number theory. An algorithm based on a cyclic group isomorphic to $Z/nZ$, the so-called $Z$-functions, was…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Yuri Heymann

We define and study a transform whose iterates bring to the fore interesting relations between Pisot numbers and primes. Although the relations we describe are general, they take a particular form in the Pisot limit points. We give three…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Andrei Vieru

All the known approximations of the number of primes pi(n) not exceeding any given integer n are derived from real-valued functions that are asymptotic to pi(x), such as x/log x, Li(x) and Riemann's function R(x). The degree of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Bhupinder Singh Anand

The theorem below gives another way of computing the distribution prime counting function without using recursion and the values of Prime numbers

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Igor Turkanov

We briefly describe some well-known means and their properties, focusing on the relationship with integer sequences. In particular, the harmonic numbers, deriving from the harmonic mean, motivate the definition of a new kind of mean that we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Marco Abrate , Stefano Barbero , Umberto Cerruti , Nadir Murru

We introduce the concept of an almost prime number generalizing a prime number. It turns out that a composite almost prime number must be a Carmichael number, in case it exists. We prove several properties of almost prime numbers and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Tigran Hakobyan

A numerical semigroup is a sub-semigroup of the natural numbers that has a finite complement. Some of the key properties of a numerical semigroup are its Frobenius number F, genus g and type t. It is known that for any numerical semigroup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Deepesh Singhal

The Prime Number Theorem states that the number of primes in $\{1,\ldots,x\}$, denoted $\pi(x)$, is approximately $\frac{x}{\ln(x)}$. In this paper, we investigate the distribution of primes for domains other than $\N$. First we look at…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Johnathan Cai , Ryan Diehl , William Gasarch , Ian Kim , Rohan Sinha

An algorithm for computing /pi(N) is presented.It is shown that using a symmetry of natural numbers we can easily compute /pi(N).This method relies on the fact that counting the number of odd composites not exceeding N suffices to calculate…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Abhijit Sen , Satyabrata Adhikari

Let $n,k\in\mathbb{N}$ and let $p_{n}$ denote the $n$th prime number. We define $p_{n}^{(k)}$ recursively as $p_{n}^{(1)}:=p_{n}$ and $p_{n}^{(k)}=p_{p_{n}^{(k-1)}}$, that is, $p_{n}^{(k)}$ is the $p_{n}^{(k-1)}$th prime. In this note we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Błażej Żmija

We define S(um)anD(ifference) numbers as ordered pairs $(m,\, m+\Delta)$ such that the digital-sum $DS(m(m+\Delta))=\Delta.$ We consider both the decimal and the binary case. If both $m$ and $m+\Delta$ are prime numbers, we refer to SanD…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Freeman J. Dyson , Norman E. Frankel , Anthony J. Guttmann

We present a simple, closed formula which gives all the primes in order. It is a simple product of integer floor and ceiling functions.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Michael J. Caola

The prime counting function inequality $\pi(x+y) < \pi(x)+\pi(y)$, which is known as Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, has been established for a variety of cases such as $ \delta x \leq y \leq x$, where $0< \delta \leq 1$, and $x \leq y\leq x…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-08-08 N. A. Carella