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IN THIS LECTURE we look at some of the techniques for testing for primes. We also introduce complex numbers in order to complete the number system and then consider the existence of primes in various algebraic structures such as the complex (or Gaussian) integers and polynomials.
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Barnes, J. (2016). Primes. In: Nice Numbers. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46831-0_8
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