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    theory, the law of quadratic reciprocity is a theorem about modular arithmetic that gives conditions for the solvability of quadratic equations modulo prime...
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  • In number theory, the law of quadratic reciprocity, like the Pythagorean theorem, has lent itself to an unusually large number of proofs. Several hundred...
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  • Legendre in 1798 in the course of his attempts at proving the law of quadratic reciprocity. Generalizations of the symbol include the Jacobi symbol and Dirichlet...
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  • In mathematics, a reciprocity law is a generalization of the law of quadratic reciprocity to arbitrary monic irreducible polynomials f ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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  • nonresidue. The first supplement to the law of quadratic reciprocity is that if p ≡ 1 (mod 4) then −1 is a quadratic residue modulo p, and if p ≡ 3 (mod 4) then...
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  • a quadratic residue or nonresidue modulo n {\displaystyle n} . The Kronecker symbol also satisfies the following versions of quadratic reciprocity law...
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  • term "reciprocity law" refers to a long line of more concrete number theoretic statements which it generalized, from the quadratic reciprocity law and...
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  • and applied them to quadratic, cubic, and biquadratic reciprocity laws. For an odd prime number p and an integer a, the quadratic Gauss sum g(a; p) is...
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  • and martingales Quadratic reciprocity, a theorem from number theory Quadratic residue, an integer that is a square modulo n Quadratic sieve, a modern...
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    introduced the square bracket notation [x] in his third proof of quadratic reciprocity (1808). This remained the standard in mathematics until Kenneth...
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