1..
- Compute the greatest common divisor
by hand.
- Use the Sieve of Eratosthenes
to make a list of all primes up to
.
- Prove that there are infinitely
many primes of the form
.
- Use Theorem 1.2.11 to deduce that
.
- Let
be the number of primes of the form
that are
. Use a computer to make a conjectural
guess about
.
- So far
Mersenne primes
have been discovered.
Give a guess, backed up by an argument, about
when the next Mersenne prime might be discovered (you will have
to do some online research).
- Let
. Compute
primes
- The prime number theorem implies
is
asymptotic to
. How close is
to
, where
is as in (a)?
- Let
, and
be integers. Prove that
- if
and
then
,
- if
and
then
,
- if
, then
if and only if
, and
- if
and
, then
.
- In each of the following, apply the division algorithm
to find
and
such that
and
:
- (Do this part by hand.) Compute the greatest common
divisor of
and
using the algorithm described in class
that involves quotients and remainders (i.e., do not just factor
and
).
- Compute by any means the greatest common divisor
- Suppose
,
and
are positive integers. Prove
that if
, then
.
- Suppose
is a prime and
and
are positive
integers. Prove that if
, then
.
- Prove that if a positive integer
is a perfect
square, then
cannot be written in the form
for
an integer.
(Hint: Compute the remainder upon division
by
of each of
,
,
,
and
.)
- Prove that no integer in the sequence
is a perfect square. (Hint:
.)
- Prove that a positive integer
is prime if
and only if
is not divisible by any prime
with
.
William
2007-06-01