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- From: kasdan@cs.columbia.edu (John Kasdan)
- Subject: Re: Extended Fermat primes
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- Organization: Columbia University School of Law
- References: <1992Nov7.172207.17207@husc15.harvard.edu> <1992Nov8.004737.13519@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:21:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.004737.13519@Princeton.EDU> tao@fine.princeton.edu (Terry Tao) writes:
- >
- >.... And it is highly likely that there are infinitely many primes
- >of the form n^4 + 1, n^8 + 1, etc. on the grounds that any polynomial which
- >is not factorizable should give infinitely many primes. (Is there a name
- >for this conjecture? if you know it could you email me?)
- >
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- I doubt that there is a name for the conjecture in that form, because
- it is obviously false. Consider x^2 + x + 2.
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- > Terry
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- /JK
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