Mathematician:François Proth
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Mathematician
French farmer who was also a self-taught mathematician.
Known for his analysis of Proth numbers and Proth primes.
Formulated Gilbreath's Conjecture on successive differences of primes, $80$ years before Norman Laurence Gilbreath, but his proof was incorrect.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 1852
- Died: 1879
Theorems and Definitions
- Proth Number
- Proth Prime
- Proth's Theorem
- Gilbreath's Conjecture (independently of, and $80$ years prior to, Norman Laurence Gilbreath)
Results named for François Proth can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for François Proth can be found here.
Publications
- 1876: Énoncés de divers théorèmes sur les nombres (C.R. Acad. Sci. Vol. 83: pp. 1288 – 1289)
- 1878: Sur quelques identités (Nouvelle correspondance mathématique Vol. 4: pp. 377 – 378)
- 1878: Théorème relatif à la théorie des nombres (C.R. Acad. Sci. Vol. 87: p. 374)
- 1878: Théorèmes sur les nombres premiers (C.R. Acad. Sci. Vol. 87: p. 926)