TITLE: Is it true that the book 'Calculate Primes' has found the pattern?
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: I read about a book called 'Calculate Primes' by James McCanney. It claims to have cracked the pattern for generating families of primes, and also the ability to factorize large numbers.  http://www.jmccanneyscience.com/CalculatePrimesCoversandTableofContents.HTM Is this true ? I am a math newbie, so asking out of curiosity.

REPLY [2 votes]: His method is a "Fast Eratosthenes Sieve": he combines Erathostene's sieving (excluding multiples) with enriching the remaining integers by adding the primorials, obtaining numbers with higher primes content a la Euclid p1...pk+1, and its generalizations N=p1.p2....pk + integer not divisible by the previous pk's; these are again used to remove composite numbers.
Lucian