Some analytical and computational aspects of prime numbers, prime number theorems and distribution of primes with applications (Q2339711): Difference between revisions

This paper (expository, at the undergraduate level) is filled with errors, both historical and mathematical. The names of mathematicians are often rendered incorrectly -- ``Kroneker'', ``Applolonius'', both ``Neil Abel'' and ``Neils Abel'', ``Goldback'', and several others. Similarly, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search gets transmuted into ``the Great Internet Prime Secret (GIPS) project''. In discussing Fermat numbers, the authors erroneously state that ``\(2^m+1\) would be a prime provided \(m\) is a power of 2'' (it is the converse that holds). They also write, ``if \(n=9\), then \(\phi(n)=6\) because integers less than 9 and co prime [sic] to 9 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8''. The above represents just a sampling of the many mistakes. In short, this paper would be a quite unreliable source of information for its apparent audience of students.