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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Testing Mathjax

It's well known that the sum of the reciprocals of the positive integers is infinite. It's less well known (ran across it a couple years ago) that the sum of the reciprocals of the primes is also infinite (Euler, 1737).

The linked article has proofs about the series 1/pi, but seems to only say that the divergence of the sum ni=11/pi is greater than loglog(n+1).

I'd bet that lim it seems obvious -- but I'm not sure how to prove that yet. Euler could probably have done it in his sleep. I'd need to mull over their approaches for a while.


It looks like this works


UPDATE: Yep, it's pretty obvious. The difference between the prime sum and \log(\log(n)) is finite, and so the numerator is close to \log(\log and the denominator to \log so the ratio tends to 0. Anyhow, this Mathjax tool seems to pass the initial tests.

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