Why should I switch to Python? - Infinity of Primes

[Tim Peters]

[Greg Ewing]
> ...
> If someone actually came up with a formula for constructing
> primes, it would be rather large news -- isn't that one of
> the Big Unsolved Problems?

Several such formulas were developed in the 70's, although they're strained.
Paulo Ribenboim's accessible "The Little Book of Big Primes"
(Springer-Verlag, 1991) gives a bunch of 'em in chapter 3, along with 6
other proofs of the infinitude of the primes.

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