In
number theory, a Pillai prime is a
prime numberp for which there is an integer n > 0 such that the
factorial of n is one less than a multiple of the prime, but the prime is not one more than a multiple of n. To put it algebraically, but . The first few Pillai primes are
Pillai primes are named after the mathematician
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai, who studied these numbers. Their infinitude has been proved several times, by
Subbarao, Erdős, and Hardy & Subbarao.
References
Guy, R. K. (2004), Unsolved Problems in Number Theory (3rd ed.), New York: Springer-Verlag, p. A2,
ISBN0-387-20860-7.