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Fermat's little theorem as an algorithm, when probability replaces certainty in primality testing
A deterministic proof seems within reach, until composite numbers start masquerading as primes. This video traces how Fermat's theorem becomes a probabilistic algorithm, and why embracing uncertainty ...
Sometimes work in one discipline of pure mathematics has a completely unexpected payoff in another. Some of the famous mathematician Pierre de Fermat’s (1601–1665) work in number theory bears this out ...
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