Jan 6, 2019 · At least in the United States, it seems that antiderivative is the more prevalent term although primitive does still get used. It seems that primitive is commonly used abroad. While …

Apr 21, 2020 · For example, my own paper with “Gauss’s Lemma” in the title uses “Gauss’s Lemma” to refer to the result on the product of primitive polynomials. Gauss’s own statement …

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In my book (Elementary Number Theory, Stillwell), exercise 3.9.1 asks to give an alternative proof of the existence of a primitive root for any prime.

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$\begingroup$ The proof can be written up in a variety of different ways depending on what one assumes is known already and what definition of "primitive polynomial" one uses.

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Sep 1, 2015 · I sometimes find it helpful to think of primitive roots as akin to logarithms...that is, a way to change multiplication into addition. For example, let's consider powers of $3$ …

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