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Théorie des nombres

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  • In Adrien-Marie Legendre

    …systematic form under the title Théorie des nombres, 2 vol. (1830). This work included his flawed proof of the law of quadratic reciprocity. The law was regarded by Gauss, the greatest mathematician of the day, as the most important general result in number theory since the work of Pierre de…

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