ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Predictive criteria for the representation of primes by binary quadratic forms

Authors 1, 2, 3

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel
  2. Department of Mathematics, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada V1Y 4X8
  3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6

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Pages:
215-278
Main language of publication
English
Received
1994-05-18
Published
1995
Exact and natural sciences