Dr. SMRH Moosavi has claimed that he had derived a general formula for finding the $ n$ -th prime number. More details can be found here at PrimeNumbersFormula.com and a brief discussion here at Math.SE titled “Formula for the nth prime number: discovered?”
SOME MORE EXCERPTS ARE HERE:
General Formula
Prime Numbers Formula For $ k$ -th prime numberGeneral Formula
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Sounds interesting, I will have to look at those links 🙂
You may like this :
C. P. Willan, “On Formulae for the Nth Prime Number”, Mathematical Gazette Volume 48, p413-415, 1964.
🙂 LOL
Thanks for this reference. I have found this article on your egloos. http://ds17.egloos.com/pds/201002/16/25/On_Formulae_for_the_Nth_Prime_Number.pdf
PS: Zariski’s Egloos is here: http://zariski.egloos.com/2541383 (In Chinese, I think.)
English Translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://zariski.egloos.com/2541383
Yeah, that’s my old blog. Actually, it is Korean. 🙂