In this paper, Chebyshev’s theorem (1850) about Bertrand’s conjecture is re-extended using a theorem about Sierpinski’s conjecture (1958). The theorem had been extended before several times, but this extension is a major extension far beyond the previous ones. At the beginning of the proof, maximal gaps table is used to verify initial states. The extended theorem contains a constant r, which can be reduced if more initial states can be checked. Therefore, the theorem can be even more extended when maximal gaps table is extended. The main extension idea is not based on r, though.
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The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
A. Shams
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
A. Shams
Published in Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 59, No. 12, pp. 1701–1706, December, 2007.
About this article Cite this articleShams, A. Re-extending Chebyshev’s theorem about Bertrand’s conjecture. Ukr Math J 59, 1914–1921 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-008-0034-7
Received: 13 June 2006
Revised: 18 January 2007
Published: 11 July 2008
Issue Date: December 2007
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-008-0034-7
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