Smallest 17 Primes in Arithmetic Sequence/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Smallest 17 Primes in Arithmetic Sequence
David Wells, in his Curious and Interesting Numbers of $1986$ reported that this was the $2$nd longest known arithmetic sequence of prime numbers.
It was discovered in $1977$ by Sol Weintraub.
Since that time, plenty longer have been found.
Sources
- Oct. 1977: Sol Weintraub: Seventeen Primes in Arithmetic Progression (Math. Comp. Vol. 31, no. 140: p. 1030) www.jstor.org/stable/2006135
- 1981: Richard K. Guy: Unsolved Problems in Number Theory
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $3,430,751,869$