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    finite value known as Brun's constant, usually denoted by B2 (sequence A065421 in the OEIS). Brun's theorem was proved by Viggo Brun in 1919, and it has...
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  • Brun showed that the sum of reciprocals of the twin primes was convergent. This famous result, called Brun's theorem, was the first use of the Brun sieve...
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  • In the field of number theory, the Brun sieve (also called Brun's pure sieve) is a technique for estimating the size of "sifted sets" of positive integers...
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    Viggo Brun, Mitt. Math. Ges. Hamburg 11 (1985) 271-290 Brun's Constant Brun's Pure Sieve Viggo Brun personal archive exists at NTN University Library Dorabiblioteket...
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    often than squares of natural numbers, although both sets are infinite. Brun's theorem states that the sum of the reciprocals of twin primes, ( 1 3 + 1 5 )...
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  • theory) Brun's theorem (number theory) Brun–Titchmarsh theorem (number theory) Carmichael's theorem (Fibonacci numbers) Chebotarev's density theorem (number...
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  • In analytic number theory, the Brun–Titchmarsh theorem, named after Viggo Brun and Edward Charles Titchmarsh, is an upper bound on the distribution of...
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  • term sieve was first used by the Norwegian mathematician Viggo Brun in 1915. However Brun's work was inspired by the works of the French mathematician Jean...
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    Divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes (category Theorems about prime numbers)
    irreducible and is non-integer. Euclid's theorem that there are infinitely many primes Small set (combinatorics) Brun's theorem, on the convergent sum of reciprocals...
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  • Fundamental lemma of sieve theory (category Theorems in analytic number theory)
    while there is frequent use of Brun's method there are only a few attempts to formulate a general Brun theorem (such as Theorem 2.1); as a result there are...
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  • begins publication of History of the Theory of Numbers. Viggo Brun proves Brun's theorem B2 for twin primes. G. H. Hardy rediscovers Pisot–Vijayaraghavan...
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    restricted examples. Chapter fourteen includes a proof of Brun's theorem and a similar proof of a theorem by Henri Poincaré on "the non-existence of a certain...
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  • 1090/S0002-9947-1912-1500911-9. —— (1913). "On Poincaré's correction to Bruns' theorem". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 19 (7): 349–355. doi:10...
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  • In number theory, Dirichlet's theorem, also called the Dirichlet prime number theorem, states that for any two positive coprime integers a and d, there...
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    Google posted three bids based on mathematical numbers: $1,902,160,540 (Brun's constant), $2,614,972,128 (Meissel–Mertens constant), and $3.14159 billion...
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  • English mathematician Titchmarsh theorem (disambiguation) Titchmarsh convolution theorem Brun–Titchmarsh theorem Valentine Titchmarsh (1853–1907), English...
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  • Bell numbers Landau's function Pentagonal number theorem Bell series Lambert series Twin prime Brun's constant Cousin prime Prime triplet Prime quadruplet...
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  • Proposition 8.2. (b) Bruns & Herzog, Theorem A.22. Eisenbud (1995), Corollary 18.17. Eisenbud (1995), Exercise 18.17. Matsumura (1989), Theorem 17.5. Matsumura...
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  • The Lambek–Moser theorem is a mathematical description of partitions of the natural numbers into two complementary sets. For instance, it applies to the...
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  • Cohen–Seidenberg theorems, which were proved by Irvin S. Cohen and Abraham Seidenberg. These are known as the going-up and going-down theorems. Let A ⊆ B be...
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  • Schnirelmann used these ideas in conjunction with the Brun sieve to prove Schnirelmann's theorem, that any natural number greater than 1 can be written...
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  • The set of prime numbers is large. The set of twin primes is small (see Brun's constant). The set of prime powers which are not prime (i.e., all numbers...
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  • List of sums of reciprocals (category Theorems about real number sequences)
    be finitely many or infinitely many, is known to be finite and is called Brun's constant, approximately 1.9022 . The reciprocal of five conventionally appears...
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  • and additive number theory includes the topics such as Dirichlet's theorem, Brun's sieve, binary quadratic forms, Goldbach's conjecture, Waring's problem...
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  • number theory. 1919 — Viggo Brun defines Brun's constant B2 for twin primes. 1937 — I. M. Vinogradov proves Vinogradov's theorem that every sufficiently large...
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  • In commutative algebra, Grothendieck local duality is a duality theorem for cohomology of modules over local rings, analogous to Serre duality of coherent...
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    result is a distributive lattice and is used in Birkhoff's representation theorem. However, it may have many more elements than are needed to form a completion...
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  • conjecture is later generalized by Hans Petersson. 1919 – Viggo Brun defines Brun's constant B2 for twin primes. 1921 – Emmy Noether introduces the first...
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    to advances in differential geometry and topology. They also proved the theorem of the three geodesics, that a Riemannian manifold topologically equivalent...
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    Hypersurface Decision boundary Ham sandwich theorem Arrangement of hyperplanes Supporting hyperplane theorem "Excerpt from Convex Analysis, by R.T. Rockafellar"...
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