The strange story of an almost unknown prime number counter: The Rafael Barrett formula
2025/09/12 by Mizraji, Eduardo · 5 voices
#00-01 #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.19324
Abstract
In this brief article, we present the formula created by Rafael Barrett in 1903 in a note to Henri Poincaré, which remained unknown for decades. Discovered in the 1930s by a Uruguayan mathematician, this formula was published and analyzed in a journal published in Montevideo in 1935. In this study, we present Barrett's formula and analyze a challenge it could pose.
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- Eduardo Mizraji: The strange story of an almost unknown prime number counter: The Rafael Barrett formula https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19324 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19324 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.1 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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