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Legendre symbol

noun

Etymology

Named after French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833), who introduced the symbol in 1798 in his work Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres ("Essay on the Theory of Numbers").

  1. derived from mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre

Definitions

  1. A mathematical function of an integer and a prime number, written (a/p), which indicates…

    A mathematical function of an integer and a prime number, written (a/p), which indicates whether a is a quadratic residue modulo p.

    • The Jacobi symbol, which generalizes the Legendre symbol, sheds some additional light on how to determine whether (7.29) has solutions when m has two or more distinct prime factors.

The neighborhood

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