E498 -- Extrait d'un lettre de M. Euler a M. Beguelin en mai 1778
(Extract of a letter from Mr. Euler to Mr. Beguelin from May 1778)
Summary:
This is another very short (three page) letter about prime numbers of the form nxx + yy.
Publication:
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Originally published in Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Berlin 1776, 1779, pp. 337-339
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 3, pp. 418 - 420
- Reprinted in Commentat. arithm. 2, 1849, pp. 270-271 [E498a]
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E498
- Additionally, E498
can be viewed or downloaded from Digitalisierte
Akademieschriften und Schriften zur Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften, which includes serial publications of the Prussian Academy of Science in the 18th and
19th Centuries.
- English translation (Benjamin Linowitz): E498
- Another English translation (Todd Doucet): E498
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