Article ID: CBB001213293

Sieve of War: The Legacy of Jitsuro Nagura (2013)

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This paper contains a biographical sketch of the late Japanese number theorist Jitsuro Nagura (1901--68) based on material provided by his eldest son Riichi Nagura, and a synopsis of his two surviving mathematical papers, the first a well-known article on primes in short intervals, and the second an unpublished draft of a proof relating to complex polynomials.

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Authors & Contributors
Craik, Alex D. D.
Stenhouse, Brigitte
Mechthild Koreuber
Féry, Suzanne
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Wilson, Robin J.
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Galois, Évariste
Pauling, Linus Carl
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20th century
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