Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show that for 0<r<1 one can determine explicitly an x0 such that xx0, at least one prime between rx and x. This is a generalization of Bertrand's Postulate. Furthermore, the same procedures are used to show that if one can find upper and lower bounds for θ(x) whose difference is kxρ then a prime between x and xKxρ, where k, K>0 are constants, 0<ρ<1 and θ(x)=pxlnp, where p runs over the primes.