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Complexity of representations of sets using elementary functions
Fermat conjectured that $2^{2^n}+1$ is prime for every $n \in \mathbb{N}.$ Before even knowing about Euler's counterexample (that $2^{32}+1 = 641 \cdot 6700417$), you could possibly say that Fermat ...
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Is there a known primitive recursive upper bound on the nth "Zhang prime"
(This question is pure curiosity. Feel free to close it if you feel it is not appropriate for mathoverflow.)
In 2013 Zhang showed that there are infinitely many pairs of primes which are less that ...
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