Dickson's conjecture
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Introduced by Leonard Eugene Dickson in 1904.
Proper noun
[edit]- (number theory) 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.