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  1. calculus - Why is "antiderivative" also known as "primitive ...

    Jan 6, 2019 · While antiderivative, primitive, and indefinite integral are synonymous in the United States, other languages seem not to have any equivalent terms for antiderivative. As others …

  2. Finding a primitive root of a prime number

    May 16, 2023 · How would you find a primitive root of a prime number such as 761? How do you pick the primitive roots to test? Randomly? Thanks

  3. elementary number theory - Find all the primitive roots of $13 ...

    Jun 6, 2016 · 2 Primes have not just one primitive root, but many. So you find the first primitive root by taking any number, calculating its powers until the result is 1, and if p = 13 you must …

  4. What are primitive roots modulo n? - Mathematics Stack Exchange

    The important fact is that the only numbers $n$ that have primitive roots modulo $n$ are of the form $2^\varepsilon p^m$, where $\varepsilon$ is either $0$ or $1$, $p$ is an odd prime, and …

  5. Proof that if $n$ has a primitive root, $x^k \equiv a \pmod n$ has …

    Aug 28, 2024 · Let $n$ be a positive integer that has a primitive root (in other word for which the multiplicative group modulo $n$ is cyclic). Proof of k'th power theorem: $x^k ...

  6. Understanding the definition of primitive recursion.

    Dec 7, 2020 · I'm a little (truthfully really) lost with the definition of primitive recursion. Here is the definition for primitive recursive functions that we have in our course (translated from German): …

  7. What is a primitive root? - Mathematics Stack Exchange

    Sep 1, 2015 · I have read that, but essentially what I want to know is, can a primitive root be defined in a simpler, easier to understand way? For my level of mathematics, some of the …

  8. Proof of existence of primitive roots - Mathematics Stack Exchange

    Proof of existence of primitive roots Ask Question Asked 11 years, 6 months ago Modified 11 years, 6 months ago

  9. abstract algebra - Theorem on primitive n-th root of unity ...

    Oct 13, 2020 · For example, if $\zeta$ is a primitive sixth root of unity, then so is $\zeta^5=\zeta^ {-1}$. Of course $\zeta^3=-1$ is not a primitive sixth root of unity; it is a primitive second root …

  10. What is a primitive polynomial? - Mathematics Stack Exchange

    Jul 31, 2010 · 9 What is a primitive polynomial? I was looking into some random number generation algorithms and 'primitive polynomial' came up a sufficient number of times that I …