How to Recognize Whether a Natural Number is a Prime

Paulo Ribenboim
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Paulo Ribenboim: Queen’s University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Chapter 2 in The Little Book of Big Primes, 1991, pp 11-104 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the art. 329 of Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Gauss (1801) wrote: The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic... The dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Keywords: Prime Factor; Prime Number; Fibonacci Number; Fermat Number; Legendre Symbol (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-4330-2_3

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