# Is it true that the book 'Calculate Primes' has found the pattern?

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.

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I would want to see them solve the RSA Factoring problem before I even get interested. Show me the factors! –  Amzoti Feb 20 '13 at 16:56
An unusual book. Goes against convention by listing $1$ as a prime. –  André Nicolas Feb 20 '13 at 17:13
I compute 240 points on the prime number crackpot index. Here's a gem from his page: "His second great discovery, which was published almost 2 decades before its discovery..." (Was this discovery time travel?) –  Douglas S. Stones Feb 20 '13 at 18:52
Looks like it's a version of the sieve: tysondw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/… –  Jack Aidley Feb 20 '13 at 20:55
In law, there's 'innocent until proven guilty'. In math, it's 'suspicious until proven correct'. –  Quinn Culver Feb 20 '13 at 22:19

Almost certainly not, and I can guarantee it's not worth \$24.95 for the privilege of checking. Some helpful links include here and here. - add comment It is true that the author claims to have cracked "the" prime number problem. It is however very hardly true that he has. If the finding were as correct an valuable as claimed and the author were as truely a mathematician as claimed, then probably, • the title page would not contain such a blatant typo RANDON for RANDOM • the result would have been published in a peer-reviewed journal before such a popularizing all-round monograph covering also galaxies and snowflakes • the result would probably not be trademakred and patented Then again, his claim that "the Prime numbers are a unique set of numbers. They can be calculated using only the operations of addirion and subtraction, starting with just the numbers$0$and$1\$" can hardly be defeated.

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The guy also writes a preface, but doesn't capitalize the first letters in his first and last name when signing it. –  krikara Feb 21 '13 at 1:44