User talk:Oliver

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Cheers! Joe (talk) 21:25, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Gamma and Zeta
Nice work on filling in some of the basic stuff on Gamma and Zeta. Your contributions are extremely welcome. --prime mover (talk) 18:04, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Multiple proofs
The idea is that we don't replace existing proofs with different proofs, but add new proofs and so have multiple proofs for a given theorem.

This is what we want to have happen in Sum of Reciprocals of Primes is Divergent‎. --prime mover (talk) 14:09, 27 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Ok, sorry about that. The previous proof was largely incomplete and had been for quite a while. I was under the impression that I was finishing it off, rather than replacing it with a different one. --Oliver (talk) 14:25, 27 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Well okay, but the one you added today is completely different from the one you added yesterday. It would be good to keep both.


 * And despite the fact that the existing proof was incomplete, it's still a valid entry and merits inclusion. --prime mover (talk) 14:44, 27 April 2014 (UTC)


 * The existing proof was literally just showing that $\ln( \ln n) - \ln \frac {\pi^2} 2$ tends to infinity as $n$ tends to infinity. I just changed the constant because it works nicer with the proof I added on the lower bound of partial sums. (the important part)


 * Perhaps it would be a good idea to put $\ln( \ln n) - C$ in the theorem, as different proofs will inevitably have different constants.--Oliver (talk) 15:11, 27 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a plan. --prime mover (talk) 16:01, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Right, I think I have a structure now. The "Proof of Limit" part of the proof is (once you cut away the complication) is trivial enough, and has been extracted into a lemma and referenced separately. The individual proofs of the lower bounds are still up for grabs by anyone prepared to flog through it. --prime mover (talk) 09:15, 1 May 2014 (UTC)