Chebyshev said, and I'll say it again:
There's always a prime between n and 2n.
Thanks to Evelyn Lamb's AMS Page-A-Day Calendar for its May 10 alert to the info above.
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Friday, May 15, 2020
A rhyme about a prime
Tomorrow, May 16, is the birthday of Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821-1894), who was one of the founders of Russian mathematics and the first to prove (in 1850) a conjecture (about positive integers) made in 1845 by French mathematician Joseph Bertrand (1822-1900) and sometimes referred to as Bertrand's postulate. This rhyming couplet celebrates that conjecture:
Chebyshev said, and I'll say it again:
There's always a prime between n and 2n.
Chebyshev said, and I'll say it again:
There's always a prime between n and 2n.
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