Etymology

Dickson's conjecture

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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Introduced by Leonard Eugene Dickson in 1904.

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