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What Is a Prime Number?
Author

Stan Wagon
Organization: Macalester College
Department: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
URL: http://www.stanwagon.com/
Journal / Anthology

Mathematica in Education and Research
Year: 1997
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page range: 54-61
Description

The notion of primality is, in many respects, elusive. In this column we describe several ways in which Mathematica can help us answer the age-old question, “Is n prime?”
Subject

*Mathematics > Number Theory
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