Talk:Euler prime
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Does anyone know about the supposed link between this and Goldbach's conjecture?
- Personally, I have yet to see any immediate connection. I think we need some real number theorists here.. Rotem Dan 12:27 May 4, 2003 (UTC)
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- Any solution to Golbach's conjecture would most likely rely on the Riemann prime counting function, the Riemann hypothesis, and inverse Mellin transforms on the Riemann zeta function for the necessary advanced knowledge of prime distribution. But I'm no professional. Simply put, one would have to be able to predict the number of primes and distribution below any large number which would involve calculations based on formulas for the Riemann zeta function and Riemann prime counting function.Scythe33 12:49, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- All twin primes are symmetric primes.
In fact, any two primes p, q ≥ 3 are trivially symmetric, namely with respect to their average (p + q) / 2. This article clearly needs some work.
—Herbee 03:50, 2004 Mar 6 (UTC)
[edit] Origin of this term is required
Does anyone have a reference to the origin of this term? The reason I ask is that an exhaustive Copernic web search (using 10 search engines) reveals only duplicate or similar content to the article's first paragraph (note: with and without reference to Wikipedia). On the other hand, the term Goldbach partition appears to be a synonymous and frequently used term in the literature and on the web, which I have noted in the article's second paragraph. Which, of course, raises the question as to whether we should drop the term Euler prime and use Goldbach partition instead? (We don't have an article with that name.) Use of Goldbach partition also ties in nicely with the rest of the article's content (so far), and opens the way for much more. Finally, I should mention that I don't feel comfortable continuing to contribute to this article without authentication of its name origin (or a change of name). --Duke Dudley 15:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- For both "Euler primes" and "symmetric primes", my Internet search found alternative definitions (but not the article's definition) outside Wikipedia and clones. I put "citation needed" in the article which I find very problematic. If nobody provides a good reference within a couple of weeks then I think it should be renamed to "Goldbach partition", or deleted, or merged into Goldbach's conjecture. Currently I don't see anything valuable which isn't in Goldbach's conjecture. PrimeHunter 02:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
