Wednesday, May 17, 2017 5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Ertan Elma, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Brun's Sieve"
First, we will have a look at Brun's Main Theorem (section 6.2 of the book An Introduction to Sieve Methods and Their Applications, by R. Murty, C. Cojojaru) and then prove that there are infinitely many natural numbers n such that n and n+2 have at most 7 prime factors.
MC 5403