Definition:Regular Prime/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Regular Primes
The concept of a regular prime was conceived by Ernst Eduard Kummer in $1850$ in his work on Fermat's Last Theorem.
He proved that Fermat's Last Theorem holds for all exponents $p$ such that $p$ is a regular prime.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): regular prime
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): regular prime