Robert Potter is a broadcast engineer based in the UK. His interests include recreational maths using computers to verify ideas that come to him in the dead of night (spooky), playing the guitar, swimming, cycling and eating. He has spent 54 years in awe of numbers as there is safety in numbers. ;-)
His belief that primorials and the formation of Goldbach pairs to make primorials are the key to unravelling the mystery of the prime number sequence has dogged him since he first studied under-graduate maths.
Because he cares little about the sensibilities of the mathematical community he counts 1 as prime and seldom uses 2, 3 or 5 in his experimental work.
He also believes that the set of prime numbers is composed of fragments of interwoven sequences that repeat in ascending and descending sequence.
As his own conjecture suggests that there are infinite gaps in the prime sequence either side of primorials made from infinite primes he believes a formula (along the lines of that describing partition numbers) for primes must take account of this fact if it has any chance of being proven correct.
Lastly he believes prime numbers have driven him as mad as a bag of snakes.
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