Historic development of prime numbers

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the history of prime numbers and development of prime number theory. There are three major sections to this thesis, Ancient times, Dark Ages, and Modern times. The ancient time's section has topics on the `Ishango Bone', `Rhine Papyrus' with an investigation of Egyptian fractions, and Euclid's Elements where the proof of the existence of an infinite number of primes was first given. The `Dark Ages' section has topics on non-European mathematicians who worked with prime numbers. The final section covers more modern prime number theory from Gauss, Fermat, Legendre, and Riemann.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Grantor

Texas Woman's University

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Ryder, Brent Alan

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Grigorieva, Ellina

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Edwards, Don E.
• Marshall, David

• Pure sciences
• Social sciences
• History
• Number
• Prime
• Mathematics

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11274/3675

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:twu-ir.tdl.org:11274/3675