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On a Theorem of Sylvester and Schur

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. Hanson
D. Hanson*
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan
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In 1892, Sylvester [7] proved that in the set of integers n, n+l,…, n+k—1, n> k > 1, there is a number containing a prime divisor greater than k. This theorem was rediscovered, in 1929, by Schur [6]. More recent results include an elementary proof by Erdös [1] and a proof of the following theorem by Faulkner [2]: Let pk be the least prime ≥2k; if n≥pk then has a prime divisor ≥pk with the exceptions and In that paper the author uses some deep results of Rosser and Schoenfeld [5] on the distribution of primes.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 195 - 199
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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