English
Related papers

Related papers: A formula for any real number, maybe

200 papers

The construction of first-order logic and set theory gives rise to apparent circularities of mutual dependence, making it unclear which can act as a self-contained starting point in the foundation of mathematics. In this paper, we carry out…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-12-27 J. Julian Pulgarín , Andrés F. Uribe-Zapata

Let $b \geq 3$ be an integer and $C(b,D)$ be the set of real numbers in $[0,1]$ whose base $b$ expansion only consists of digits in a set $D \subseteq \{0,...,b-1\}$. We study how close can numbers in $C(b,D)$ be approximated by rational…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Bing Li , Ruofan Li , Yufeng Wu

Let $B$ be an infinite subset of $\mathbf{N}$. When we consider partitions of natural numbers into elements of $B$, a partition number without a restriction of the number of equal parts can be expressed by partition numbers with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-23 BongJu Kim

The proofs that the real numbers are denumerable will be shown, i.e., that there exists one-to-one correspondence between the natural numbers $N$ and the real numbers $\Re$. The general element of the sequence that contains all real numbers…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Slavica Vlahovic , Branislav Vlahovic

The $3x+1$ Problem asks if whether for every natural number $n$, there exists a finite number of iterations of the piecewise function $$f(2n)=n, \quad f(2n-1)=6n-2, $$ with an iterate equal to the number $1$, or in other words, every…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Jeffrey R. Goodwin

Usual math sets have special types: countable, compact, open, occasionally Borel, rarely projective, etc. Each such set is described by a single Set Theory formula with parameters unrelated to other formulas. Exotic expressions involving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Leonid A. Levin

Considered will be properties of the set of real numbers $\Re$ generated by an operator that has form of an exponential function of Gelfond-Schneider type with rational arguments. It will be shown that such created set has cardinal number…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-03-24 Slavica Vlahovic , Branislav Vlahovic

We provide a formal introduction into the classic theorems of general topology and its axiomatic foundations in set theory. Starting from ZFC, the exposition in this first part includes relation and order theory as well as a construction of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Felix Nagel

It is proved that all recursively enumerable sets of natural numbers can be represented by arithmetic formulas (of two kinds) with only 3 quantifiers.

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-08 Yuri Matiyasevich , Julia Robinson

Fix a positive real number $\theta$. The natural numbers $m$ with largest square-free divisor not exceeding $m^\theta$ form a set $\mathscr{A}$, say. It is shown that whenever $\theta>1/2$ then all large natural numbers $n$ are the sum of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Jörg Brüdern , Olivier Robert

This essay contains three parts. The first part of essay focuses on the hypothesis of the functional semantic constructions (FSC-Hypothesis). This hypothesis explains that a language, a number, a money are the functional semantic…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. Semenov

For a set $A$, let $P(A)$ be the set of all finite subset sums of $A$. In this paper, for a sequence of integers $B=\{1<b_1<b_2<\cdots\}$ and $3b_1+5\leq b_2\leq 6b_1+10$, we determine the critical value for $b_3$ such that there exists an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Min Tang , Hongwei Xu

Let $L=(L_d)_{d \in \mathbb N}$ be any ordered probability sequence, i.e., satisfying $0 < L_{d+1} \le L_d$ for each $d \in \mathbb N$ and $\sum_{d \in \mathbb N} L_d =1$. We construct sequences $A = (a_i)_{i \in \mathbb N}$ on the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Aafko Boonstra , Charlene Kalle

We initiate the complexity theoretic study of the problem of computing the bits of (real) algebraic numbers. This extends the work of Yap on computing the bits of transcendental numbers like \pi, in Logspace. Our main result is that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Samir Datta , Rameshwar Pratap

Natural numbers from 0 to 11111 are written in terms of 1 to 9 in two different ways. The first one in increasing order of 1 to 9, and the second one in decreasing order. This is done by using the operations of addition, multiplication,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Inder J. Taneja

The problem of finding the sum of a polynomial's values is considered. In particular, for any $n\geq 3$, the explicit formula for the sum of the $n$th powers of natural numbers $S_n=\sum_{x=1}^{m}x^{n}$ is proved:…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Eteri Samsonadze

Three types of Cantor sets are studied.For any integer $m\ge 4$, we show that every real number in $[0,k]$ is the sum of at most $k$ $m$-th powers of elements in the Cantor ternary set $C$ for some positive integer $k$, and the smallest…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Lu Cui , Minghui Ma

We study the complexity of the classification problem for countable models of set theory (ZFC). We prove that the classification of arbitrary countable models of ZFC is Borel complete, meaning that it is as complex as it can conceivably be.…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-07-21 John Clemens , Samuel Coskey , Samuel Dworetzky

In this paper, we study numbers $n$ that can be factored in four different ways as $n = A B = (A + a_1) (B - b_1) = (A + a_2) (B - b_2) = (A + a_3) (B - b_3)$ with $B \le A$, $1 \le a_1 < a_2 < a_3 \le C$ and $1 \le b_1 < b_2 < b_3 \le C$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Tsz Ho Chan , Laura Holmes , Michael Liu , Jose Villarreal

How many permutations of the natural numbers are needed so that every conditionally convergent series of real numbers can be rearranged to no longer converge to the same sum? We define the \emph{rearrangement number}, a new cardinal…