Smallest 18 Primes in Arithmetic Sequence/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Smallest 18 Primes in Arithmetic Sequence
David Wells, in his Curious and Interesting Numbers of $1986$ reported that this was the longest known arithmetic sequence of prime numbers.
As Paul A. Pritchard put it:
- breaking the previous record of $17$ due to Weintraub.
The Weintraub in question was Sol Weintraub, who had discovered the previous record of $17$ such primes in $1977$.
Since that time, plenty longer have been found.
Sources
- 1983: Paul A. Pritchard: Eighteen Primes in Arithmetic Progression (Math. Comp. Vol. 41: p. 697) www.jstor.org/stable/2007705
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $107,928,278,317$