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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/CKMS.2004.19.2.205

INFINITELY MANY PRIMES OF THE FORM An + 1 ANOTHER ELEMENTARY PROOF

Yoo, Ji-Sang (Department of Mathematics KAIST)

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Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.19, no.2, 2004 , pp. 205-210 More about this Journal

Abstract

According to Diriclet's Theorem, there are infinitely many primes of the form An+ 1 for any fixed positive integer A. For this, there already exists a classical simple proof using cyclotomic polynomials. In this paper, we develop another elementary proof of this statement.

Keywords

prime number; Dirichlet's theorem;

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Reference

1	/ [ Lawrence C.Washington ] / Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields
2	/ [ Hua Loo Keng ] / Introduction to Number Theory