学术报告

【本科生沙龙】分析与代数讨论班 第二十三期

#Math101 Session 23 (Faculty Talk)

Time：Apr. 12, 2024, 19:00--21:00

Location：Room 103, East Teaching Building B2, Chang'an Campus

Speaker：Prof. Niu, Pengcheng

Title：On the Firoozbakht Conjecture

Abstract：The Iranian mathematician Farideh Firoozbakht made a strong conjecture in 1982 claiming that the n-th root of the n-th prime keeps getting smaller as n goes bigger. It has been verified for all primes up to about 18 quintillion. It is also known that Zhang Yitang's celebrated theorem in 2014 implies that Firoozbakht's conjecture is true for infinitely many values of n. In this talk, we will give a brief introduction to this conjecture and review some related results in elementary calculus.