Number theory MOC

Prime number

A natural number is called prime iff it has exactly two divisors in , namely one and itself.1 #m/def/num The first 25 primes are

Prime numbers admit generalizations to two different concepts in the setting of a ring: The Irreducible element and the Prime element.

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Footnotes

  1. It follows that is not prime. ↩