The strange story of an almost unknown prime number counter: the Rafael Barrett formula
In this brief article, we present the formula created by Rafael Barrett in 1903 in a note to Henri Poincaré, which remained unknown for decades. Discovered in the 1930s by a Uruguayan mathematician, this formula was published and analyzed in a journal published in Montevideo in 1935. In this study, we present Barrett's formula and analyze a challenge it could pose.
Authors
- Eduardo Mizraji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6938-8427)
Institutions
- Universidad de Montevideo (UY)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Mathematical Gazette
- Published
- 2026-05-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00255572.2026.2664683
- Primary Topic
- International Science and Diplomacy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00