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Dickson's conjecture

name

Etymology

Introduced by Leonard Eugene Dickson in 1904.

Definitions

  1. The conjecture that, for a finite set of linear forms a₁ + b₁n, a₂ + b₂n, ..., aₖ + bₖn…

    The conjecture that, for a finite set of linear forms a₁ + b₁n, a₂ + b₂n, ..., aₖ + bₖn with bᵢ ≥ 1, there are infinitely many positive integers n for which they are all prime, unless there is a congruence condition preventing this.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Dickson's conjecture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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