Historic development of prime numbers

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dc.contributor.authorRyder, Brent Alanen_US
dc.contributor.committeeChairGrigorieva, Ellina
dc.contributor.committeeMemberEdwards, Don E.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMarshall, David
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T19:19:03Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T19:19:03Z
dc.date.issued1/1/2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11274/3675
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectPure sciences
dc.subjectSocial sciences
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectNumber
dc.subjectPrime
dc.subjectMathematicsen_US
dc.titleHistoric development of prime numbersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentMathematics and Computer Science
thesis.degree.grantorTexas Woman's University
thesis.degree.levelMaster
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science

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