Prime number/Citable Version: Revision history

13 September 2013

• curprev 12:2012:20, 13 September 2013‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ m 14,251 bytes +14,251‎ moved Prime number to Prime number/Citable Version: citable version policy

13 January 2008

• curprev 23:1823:18, 13 January 2008‎ imported>D. Matt Innis‎ 14,251 bytes −39‎ No edit summary

12 August 2007

• curprev 13:4413:44, 12 August 2007‎ imported>Aleksander Stos‎ 14,290 bytes +14,290‎ approved version 1.2, text copied from /Draft page

10 May 2007

• curprev 21:4621:46, 10 May 2007‎ imported>D. Matt Innis‎ m 14,150 bytes +768‎ sp
• curprev 19:1919:19, 10 May 2007‎ imported>D. Matt Innis‎ 14,150 bytes +768‎ update to v1.1

6 May 2007

• curprev 20:1320:13, 6 May 2007‎ imported>David Tribe‎ m 13,382 bytes +80‎ Protected "Prime number": Protecting approved V1 D Tribe [edit=sysop:move=sysop]
• curprev 20:1120:11, 6 May 2007‎ imported>David Tribe‎ 13,382 bytes +80‎ tagging approved D Tribe reverting post approval edit in process
• curprev 17:5717:57, 6 May 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ 13,302 bytes +1,051‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: deleted nonsense. I'm surprised to find such a comment in an article that someone called "ready for approval".
• curprev 04:3304:33, 6 May 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ 13,331 bytes +11‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: restate last paragraph

5 May 2007

• curprev 18:2818:28, 5 May 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 13,320 bytes +1,104‎ math tags
• curprev 13:3613:36, 5 May 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 13,248 bytes +11‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: inserting "the number" before N - 1
• curprev 00:1600:16, 5 May 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ 13,237 bytes +734‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: medium-thorough rewrite
• curprev 00:0500:05, 5 May 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ m 12,503 bytes +66‎ →‎Locating primes: minor rewording of first paragraph
• curprev 00:0200:02, 5 May 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ 12,501 bytes +64‎ linked to unique factorization; rewrote "this"s; minor editing/formatting

4 May 2007

• curprev 08:4708:47, 4 May 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 12,437 bytes +221‎ characterization => way of saying this
• curprev 05:3305:33, 4 May 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ 12,435 bytes −4‎ revert my last edit - 2^n+1 factors if n has an odd divisor, so all primes of the form 2^n+1 are in fact of the form 2^(2^n)+1
• curprev 05:2505:25, 4 May 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ 12,439 bytes +4‎ →‎Primes of special forms: fix definition of Fermat number
• curprev 05:2005:20, 4 May 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ m 12,435 bytes +219‎ spelling

3 May 2007

• curprev 21:4921:49, 3 May 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 12,439 bytes +223‎ unique factorization property
• curprev 20:1720:17, 3 May 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 12,216 bytes 0‎ unique set of prime factors. (The way it's written is not unique.)
• curprev 04:0204:02, 3 May 2007‎ imported>Gareth Leng‎ 12,216 bytes −35‎ →‎Some unsolved problems
• curprev 03:5803:58, 3 May 2007‎ imported>Gareth Leng‎ 12,208 bytes −9‎ →‎Locating primes
• curprev 03:5703:57, 3 May 2007‎ imported>Gareth Leng‎ 12,210 bytes −7‎ trimmed a jargon phrase that is explained immediately after

30 April 2007

• curprev 21:0621:06, 30 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 12,238 bytes +21‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: fixing link
• curprev 21:0521:05, 30 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 12,217 bytes +54‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: link to page with Euler's proof
• curprev 20:1620:16, 30 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 12,163 bytes −88‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: The Euler proof is no longer included in the article.
• curprev 20:1420:14, 30 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ m 12,250 bytes −1‎ →‎Primes of special forms: typo
• curprev 20:1220:12, 30 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 12,251 bytes −2,985‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers: math html tags

29 April 2007

• curprev 22:3222:32, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ m 12,214 bytes +682‎ →‎Primes of a special form: renamed subsection
• curprev 22:3122:31, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ m 12,215 bytes −1‎ more rearrangement
• curprev 22:2922:29, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ 12,216 bytes +684‎ a bit of global rearrangement; played with introduction
• curprev 22:1622:16, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ 11,532 bytes −4,506‎ →‎Unique factorization: moved material to unique factorization
• curprev 22:0622:06, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Martin‎ 12,911 bytes −3,199‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers: moved most material to Prime Number Theorem
• curprev 12:5012:50, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 16,110 bytes +72‎ →‎Primes of a special form: Making it clear that they are conjectures
• curprev 11:2311:23, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 16,038 bytes +1‎ spelling
• curprev 11:0811:08, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 16,037 bytes +670‎ Primes of a special form - Mersenne and Fermat
• curprev 10:1510:15, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,367 bytes +131‎ two ==> a few
• curprev 10:1310:13, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 15,365 bytes +99‎ other unsolved problems
• curprev 09:4509:45, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,266 bytes +19‎ →‎Alternative definition: "usually defined as"
• curprev 09:1609:16, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,247 bytes +11‎ →‎Definition: rename section to "Alternative definition"
• curprev 09:1409:14, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,236 bytes 0‎ Moving "definition" and "unique factorization" sections, which will appeal to more advanced readers, to later in the article.
• curprev 09:1109:11, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,236 bytes +15,236‎ Moving the rigourous definition into the introduction so that the definition section, which is more advanced, can be moved later in the article.
• curprev 09:0509:05, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,044 bytes +1,189‎ Figure caption: "The prime number 11 illustrated ..."
• curprev 09:0409:04, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 15,038 bytes +86‎ adding R. C. Vaughan quote
• curprev 08:5908:59, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 14,952 bytes +24‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: Removing the single use of the does-not-divide symbol as suggested by Greg Martin
• curprev 08:5808:58, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 14,897 bytes −98‎ removing "whole number"
• curprev 08:5408:54, 29 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 14,995 bytes +67‎ →‎Definition: adding a few words that might help readers with some of the notation

27 April 2007

• curprev 17:0417:04, 27 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 14,928 bytes 0‎ →‎References and Notes: lower-case initial "n"; I think this is prescribed in "article mechanics"
• curprev 17:0217:02, 27 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 14,928 bytes +22‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers
• curprev 17:0217:02, 27 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 14,928 bytes +14‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers
• curprev 17:0117:01, 27 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 14,928 bytes +14‎ →‎Unique factorization: \cdots

22 April 2007

• curprev 10:4310:43, 22 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 14,928 bytes +15‎ rewriting sentence at Catherine Woodgold's suggestion

21 April 2007

• curprev 20:1420:14, 21 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 14,913 bytes −1‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers: correcting "contradictions" to "contradiction"

19 April 2007

• curprev 11:0511:05, 19 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ 14,914 bytes −423‎ move Euler's sum-is-product stuff down and expand, per talk

16 April 2007

• curprev 00:1400:14, 16 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ m 15,456 bytes −1‎ →‎Unique factorization: remove comma in formula

15 April 2007

• curprev 12:1712:17, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,457 bytes +120‎ →‎The Goldbach conjecture: Adding an example for Goldbach's conjecture (maybe not necessary?)
• curprev 12:1112:11, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,337 bytes +366‎ →‎Locating primes: Inserting "large" for "To find large prime numbers"; smaller ones could be found by just playing around.
• curprev 12:0812:08, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,331 bytes +11‎ →‎Locating primes: numbers ending in 0 are divisible by 5.
• curprev 12:0512:05, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,326 bytes +6‎ →‎Euler's proof: Switching left and right sides of the equation; result is eaiser to derive if you start with the product.
• curprev 12:0212:02, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,320 bytes +56‎ →‎Euler's proof: making my explanation more mathematically complete (though a bit repetitive; difficult to word it otherwise)
• curprev 11:5811:58, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 15,264 bytes +293‎ →‎Euler's proof: Adding an explanation because I wasn't able to follow this step without help from elsewhere
• curprev 11:2711:27, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ m 14,972 bytes +1‎ →‎Euclid's proof: "an" --> "any"
• curprev 11:2511:25, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 14,971 bytes +65‎ →‎Euclid's proof: Inserting explanation of the does-not-divide symbol
• curprev 11:2211:22, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ m 14,906 bytes +1,051‎ →‎There are infinitely many primes: "man" --> "many"
• curprev 11:2111:21, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 14,905 bytes −76‎ →‎Unique factorization: replacing the confusing q-hat notation with another notation
• curprev 11:0411:04, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Catherine Woodgold‎ 14,933 bytes −45‎ →‎Definition: Shorten "in symbols (a phrase commonly used to mean "in mathematical notation") to just "in mathematical notation; longer form was unnecessary.
• curprev 07:2707:27, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ 14,978 bytes −3‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers: fix sign error in definition of zeta function
• curprev 07:1407:14, 15 April 2007‎ imported>David Tribe‎ m 14,981 bytes +1,126‎ →‎Euler's proof
• curprev 07:0907:09, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ m 14,980 bytes +305‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers: spelling
• curprev 07:0107:01, 15 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ m 14,988 bytes −7‎ →‎Definition: add paragraph break, remove "note that", spelling

11 April 2007

• curprev 22:3122:31, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 14,995 bytes +320‎ missing tag in note
• curprev 22:3022:30, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 14,982 bytes +307‎ re-title
• curprev 22:2922:29, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 14,972 bytes +297‎ restoring paragraph and adding a footnote
• curprev 22:2222:22, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 14,675 bytes +820‎ I'm happy to remove the aside on notation, but deleting the whole paragraph was abit much
• curprev 21:5521:55, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 13,855 bytes 0‎ using \ldots for sums (not products) is quite standard
• curprev 21:2921:29, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 13,855 bytes 0‎ →‎Euler's proof
• curprev 21:2821:28, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 13,855 bytes +13,855‎ →‎Euler's proof
• curprev 21:2621:26, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ 13,855 bytes −21‎ →‎Unique factorization
• curprev 21:2521:25, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ 13,851 bytes −25‎ →‎Definition
• curprev 21:2421:24, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ 13,876 bytes −1,871‎ This second proposed definition is nowhere near as easily derived from the standard definition as to be regarded as trivially equivalent. And Euclid's deserves better than this introduction.
• curprev 21:1721:17, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 15,747 bytes −36‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers
• curprev 21:1521:15, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 15,783 bytes 0‎ →‎Further Reading
• curprev 21:1521:15, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ m 15,783 bytes 0‎ →‎Distribution of prime numbers
• curprev 21:1421:14, 11 April 2007‎ imported>Michael Hardy‎ 15,783 bytes +15,783‎ →‎Some Unsolved Problems

10 April 2007

• curprev 18:3618:36, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Gary Hawley‎ 15,783 bytes +44‎ →‎The Twin Prime Conjecture
• curprev 12:4012:40, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,739 bytes −2‎ a little more tweaking of the notation
• curprev 12:3612:36, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,739 bytes 0‎ another type (Ribeboim -> Ribenboim)
• curprev 12:2512:25, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,738 bytes −1‎ typo (analythic -> analytic)
• curprev 12:2012:20, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,739 bytes −2‎ markup of footnotes
• curprev 12:0612:06, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,741 bytes −755‎ References section
• curprev 12:0312:03, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 15,711 bytes +398‎ The Selberg/Erdös proof has to be mentioned.
• curprev 11:5311:53, 10 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,313 bytes −10‎ keeping the notation consistent

9 April 2007

• curprev 22:5822:58, 9 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ 15,323 bytes −1,173‎ move riemann zeta function down, attempt to smoothen transitions, remove details of RH, etc; see talk page
• curprev 17:4417:44, 9 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 16,496 bytes +6,398‎ filling out the zeta function section a bit.
• curprev 00:0600:06, 9 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ m 15,680 bytes +423‎ →‎The Golbach Conjecture: spelling

8 April 2007

• curprev 12:5212:52, 8 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 15,678 bytes +425‎ adding brief statements of twin prime and Golbach conjectures
• curprev 12:3712:37, 8 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,253 bytes −4‎ correction

7 April 2007

• curprev 23:2423:24, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 15,257 bytes +518‎ new placeholder sections
• curprev 22:5422:54, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 15,180 bytes +441‎ lost track of sign there
• curprev 22:4922:49, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 15,187 bytes +448‎ moving gthe section and adding definition
• curprev 22:3722:37, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 14,846 bytes +107‎ new section on zeta function
• curprev 19:3019:30, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 14,739 bytes +1,352‎ include original German edition
• curprev 19:1319:13, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 14,471 bytes +693‎ adding "Further Reading" section
• curprev 18:5418:54, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 13,778 bytes +391‎ The Prime Number Theorem - historical note
• curprev 14:2914:29, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 13,387 bytes +3,289‎ explanation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes
• curprev 13:4613:46, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 10,309 bytes +191‎ statement of PNT
• curprev 13:3913:39, 7 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 10,175 bytes +57‎ adding section placeholders

6 April 2007

• curprev 15:0715:07, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Fredrik Johansson‎ 10,118 bytes +20‎ →‎Euler's proof: correction to Euler product
• curprev 14:5414:54, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Fredrik Johansson‎ m 10,098 bytes +10,098‎ →‎Euler's proof: typo
• curprev 14:2214:22, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Fredrik Johansson‎ 10,097 bytes +301‎ add illustration
• curprev 09:3809:38, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Fredrik Johansson‎ 9,796 bytes +2,281‎ add section on locating primes; tidy headings
• curprev 08:4708:47, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ 7,515 bytes −123‎ →‎Unique Factorization: a bit more explicit and connect with the two definitions
• curprev 08:3808:38, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Fredrik Johansson‎ m 7,638 bytes +9‎ indent formulas
• curprev 08:2008:20, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 7,629 bytes +7,629‎ Euler's Proof - filled in
• curprev 07:3307:33, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 5,759 bytes −243‎ rewrite of unique factorization proof
• curprev 07:0107:01, 6 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 6,030 bytes +28‎ clarify notation and move aside on noation a bit

5 April 2007

• curprev 23:2223:22, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 6,002 bytes −175‎ deleting comment about definitions of prime
• curprev 23:2023:20, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 6,177 bytes −357‎ trimming 1st paragraph a bit
• curprev 11:1011:10, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 6,534 bytes +2,649‎ section on unique factorization
• curprev 08:0508:05, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Fredrik Johansson‎ 4,597 bytes −70‎ i think these links to largely irrelevant topics are distracting. readers who don't know e.g. what GPS means can easily do a manual search
• curprev 07:5807:58, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 4,667 bytes +21‎ placeholdet section
• curprev 07:5407:54, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Jitse Niesen‎ 4,646 bytes −73‎ many small changes
• curprev 07:0107:01, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 4,719 bytes +834‎ section on number of primes
• curprev 06:3306:33, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 3,885 bytes +2,157‎ insrting a comma
• curprev 06:2806:28, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 3,884 bytes +2,156‎ start on new section
• curprev 05:3005:30, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 1,728 bytes −117‎ fixing markup
• curprev 05:2605:26, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 1,845 bytes +27‎ an important clarification
• curprev 02:0402:04, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Kevin Allbee‎ m 1,818 bytes +1,818‎ No edit summary
• curprev 02:0202:02, 5 April 2007‎ imported>Kevin Allbee‎ m 1,816 bytes +1,816‎ No edit summary

4 April 2007

• curprev 20:5020:50, 4 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 1,815 bytes +1,189‎ expanding introductory material
• curprev 20:2520:25, 4 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 626 bytes +130‎ fixing markup
• curprev 20:1120:11, 4 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ m 496 bytes +57‎ adding categories
• curprev 20:0820:08, 4 April 2007‎ imported>Greg Woodhouse‎ 439 bytes +439‎ creating new article