11-Jun-1995

Unsolved Problem 24:

Is there always a prime number between any two consecutive squares?

Reference:

[Rademacher 1957]
Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz, The Enjoyment of Mathematics. Princeton University Press. New Jersey: 1957. Page 204.
Primes Between Consecutive Squares
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