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Message 131413 - Posted: 23 Jul 2019 | 20:47:11 UTC

Can Anyone Recommend A Good Book To Understand This Prime Math language, I find it really interesting and want to understand but I am not the brightness spark in the box when it comes to math. so I would need something simple. to begin with and work my way up.

I really enjoy it hear looking for prime numbers and sieving and finding Several AP numbers when I have woken up is always good start to the day, even though I may not understand what your always talking about. its still a lot of fun.




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Message 131417 - Posted: 24 Jul 2019 | 0:55:50 UTC - in response to Message 131413.

not a book, but Jens Kruse Andersen's webpage at http://primerecords.dk/aprecords.htm has some info relating to APs and the history of searching for record APs. At the bottom there are links to more info on APs.

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Message 131424 - Posted: 24 Jul 2019 | 8:16:26 UTC

A good place to start might be https://primes.utm.edu/prove/

Not specifically about prime finding, but related math – "The Joy of Factoring" by Samuel Wagstaff

Then there's "Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective" by Carl Pomerance and Richard Crandall

there's a lot of math textbooks and notes online:
https://math.berkeley.edu/~ribet/115/other_books.html
http://www.numbertheory.org/ntw/lecture_notes.html

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Message 131426 - Posted: 24 Jul 2019 | 9:39:49 UTC

William Stein, Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets is free:
https://wstein.org/ent/

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