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Illustration of fourier series for prime number counting functions

Posted 9 years ago

If you're interested in prime number theory and the Riemann hypothesis, I'm guessing you'll probably be interested in the attached document in which I illustrate Fourier series for prime number counting functions including Riemann's prime number counting function and Chebyshev's prime number counting function. I also included a couple of plots from the document below which I believe best illustrate the essence of the information contained within the document.

Fourier Series for Riemann's Prime Counting Function:

Fourier Series for Riemann's Prime Counting Function

Fourier Series for Chebyshev's Prime Counting Function:

Fourier Series for Chebyshev's Prime Counting Function

I added the Raspberry Pi group to this post because I created the attached document and performed all of the evaluations contained within the document using the Mathematica version which comes bundled with the Raspbian operating system. A complete evaluation of the attached document takes approximately one hour with Mathematica running on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

POSTED BY: Steven Clark
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Please see:

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POSTED BY: Daniel Lichtblau
Posted 9 years ago

I haven't achieved my ultimate goal yet (which I described in an earlier reply in this discussion), but I think derivation of Fourier series for prime number counting functions is a significant achievement in of itself, and so I've decided to generate and post a notebook illustrating the derivation of Fourier series for prime number counting functions, This is going to take a bit of time, so please be patient and stay tuned to my discussions.

POSTED BY: Steven Clark
Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: Steven Clark
Posted 9 years ago
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POSTED BY: Sam Carrettie
Posted 9 years ago

I included a PDF file versus a notebook for a couple of reasons. The first reason is I figured not everyone has access to Mathematica, but nearly everyone has access to a PDF reader. The second reason is you can't run evaluations on the notebook because the notebook doesn't include the definitions of the underlying functions which calculate the Fourier series. This document was intended to illustrate the high-level results (which I consider somewhat beautiful in of themselves) to a wide audience versus to bury the reader in the details and complexity of the mathematics which would require a significant amount of additional explanation.

POSTED BY: Steven Clark

@Steven Clark could you please also attach the notebook? We cannot run code in PDF.

POSTED BY: Sam Carrettie
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