Lukol Directory: Science: Math: Number Theory: Prime Numbers

Primality Testing with Fermat's Little Theorem
Test numbers for primality and pseudoprimality in Java.
http://www.math.fau.edu/Richman/carm.htm

Prime Numbers List
Browse all prime numbers of less than 10 digits. A prime number checker facility is also included.
http://www.prime-numbers.org

MathWorld: Prime Numbers
Index to hundreds of prime-related articles in Eric Weisstein's MathWorld.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/PrimeN...

Cunningham Chain Records
Sequences of nearly doubled primes, maintained by Dirk Augustin.
http://hjem.get2net.dk/jka/math/Cunningham...

Visualizing the Distribution of Prime Numbers
Investigation into patterns in the distribution of the primes by visualizing them.
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~bunyip/prime...

Patterns in Primes
Examples of mostly digit patterns collected by Harvey Heinz.
http://www.geocities.com/~harveyh/primes.h...

Generalized Fermat Prime Search
Software, results and other resources.
http://perso.orange.fr/yves.gallot/primes/...

Prime k-tuplets
Tony Forbes' extensive collection of special types of prime clusters.
http://www.ltkz.demon.co.uk/ktuplets.htm

Hardy-Littlewood Constants
Infinite series over primes are the main topic in Hadamard-de la Vallée Poussin constants and in Brun's constant.
http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/const...

The Prime Page
Methods and definitions of finding prime numbers.
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/manc...

Prime Music
A musical piece translating prime factorizations to frequencies. Requires RealPlayer.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~limonade/limonades/p...

Henri Lifchitz
Research in number theory, prime numbers and parity of arithmetic functions. Includes primality testing theorems and prime number chains. In English and French.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/h...

The Nine and Ten Primes Project
The discovery of nine and finally ten consecutive primes in arithmetic progression.
http://members.aon.at/toplicm/cp09.html

Prime Numbers and Factoring
This page is a collection of links related to prime numbers and factoring of very large numbers.
http://www.ontko.com/~rayo/primes/index.ht...

Radiant Primes
Visualization of prime numbers resembling an astronomical radiant or celestial pathway.
http://www.radiantprimes.com/

Some Prime Numbers
Sieves and factoring for small numbers. Download primes below 8 billion.
http://www.rsok.com/~jrm/printprimes.html

Thomas R. Nicely
Includes twin prime counts, tables of first occurrence prime gaps, papers.
http://www.trnicely.net

Introductory Prime Number Theory Resources
Notes and links compiled by Mark Watkins on the relation of the Riemann zeta function to the distribution of prime numbers.
http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/zeta/t...

On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS): Primes
Index to information about many integer sequences involving primes. Site includes numerous other prime-related sequences.
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequence...

All You Wanted to Know about Primes
Information by Joe McLean. Includes fundamentals, frequency, primality proofs and special types. Many definitions and theorems.
http://www.glasgowg43.freeserve.co.uk/prim...

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Cooperative Computing Awards
Offers $100000, $150000 and $250000 for the first discovery of a prime above 10, 100 and 1000 million digits.
http://www.eff.org/awards/coop.php

Jens Kruse Andersen
Prime constellation records. Arithmetic progressions, simultaneous primes, prime gaps.
http://hjem.get2net.dk/jka

World of Numbers: World of Palindromic Primes
Records, statistics, curios and puzzles about primes reading the same backwards. Compiled by Patrick De Geest.
http://www.worldofnumbers.com/palpri.htm

Wikipedia: Prime Numbers
Index to many prime-related articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prim...

The Prime Machine
Explore interactively the Goldbach conjecture, the distribution of prime twins, the prime number theorem.
http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/mach...

Animation of Eratosthenes' Prime Sieve
An interactive animation of the sieve of Eratosthenes to obtain prime numbers (JavaScript required).
http://www.faust.fr.bw.schule.de/mhb/erato...

Prime Numbers
Short lesson.
http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/~krc/numbers/pri...

Bipeds and Prime Numbers
Graduation address by former professor of philosophy Garrett Barden. Mentions primes as sign of human curiosity.
http://www.ucc.ie/opa/conferspech/gbarden....

The Distribution of the Primes
Project Report on research into the 2nd Hardy-Littlewood conjecture and the relationship between the primes and chaotic systems by David O'Doherty. Includes program downloads.
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dmo25/Primes

Introduction to Twin Primes and Brun's Constant
An article by Pascal Sebah with the results of computation of the twin primes up to 5.10^15.
http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constan...

Deficient Factorials
A summary of searches for primes of the form n!/k+-1 (k above 1), n!/k!+-1 (k above 3) and n!/n#+-1.
http://www.denhulster.nl/primeform/deffac....

K-Tuple Permissible Patterns
Findings using an exhaustive search by Thomas J Engelsma.
http://www.opertech.com/primes/k-tuples.ht...

Applets for Prime Numbers
Factorization and weights of Proth coefficients.
http://www.brennen.net/primes/

Entropy and Prime Numbers
Entropy of a nonnegative adjacency matrix related to prime numbers.
http://web.tiscali.it/GEB/sfteng.htm

Status of Search for Multifactorial Primes
An organized search for primes of the form (n)(n-k)(n-2k)...+/-1. Includes table of numbers searched and primes found.
http://www.geocities.com/kradenken/mfprime...

Notes and Literature on Prime Numbers
With applets to demonstrate properties of primes.
http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/prim...

Ask Dr. Math FAQ: Prime Numbers
Archived questions and answers at different levels.
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.prime...

Distribution of the Prime Numbers
Web article by Johan G. van der Galiën showing that the primes do not satisfy certain statistical tests for randomness.
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/galien8/prime/pr...

The First 5,800,000 Prime Numbers
Site includes known primes k*2^n-1 for k=301 to 999.
http://www.geocities.com/primes_r_us/

Formulae for Primes
Contains a formula by Jones, Sato, Wada and Wiens. The set of primes is the set of positive values taken by this expression.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ensab/Primes/

The Time Traveler
A group with new propositions in various areas of number theory.
http://www.geocities.com/timeparadox/

Number Spiral
Explains this method of visually representing the distribution of primes and the relationships between factors and products.
http://www.numberspiral.com/

MacTutor History of Mathematics: Prime Numbers
Includes biographies on many mathematicians.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...

Generalized Woodall Numbers
An organized search for primes of the form n*b^n-1.
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~jdemaio/gener...

Sub Topics:
Goldbach Conjecture
Mersenne
Primality Tests


Related Topics:
Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing: Projects: Cryptography
Science: Math: Number Theory: Factoring
Science: Math: Recreations: Specific Numbers



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