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INDEX 591<br />

Preneel, B. (with De Win et al.),<br />

381, 453, 458, 536<br />

Preskill, J., 420<br />

Press, W., 399, 402, 403<br />

primality certificate, 373<br />

primality testing, 106, 370<br />

Adleman, Pomerance, Rumely<br />

(APR), 194<br />

Agrawal, Kayal, Saxena (AKS),<br />

ix, 200, 202<br />

Atkin–Morain, 131, 358, 362–<br />

364, 371–373<br />

elliptic curve (ECPP), 4, 323,<br />

334, 368, 372, 380, 383,<br />

384<br />

elliptic curve (fastECPP), 373<br />

finite fields, 190<br />

Frobenius, 145, 146, 148, 150,<br />

152<br />

Gauss sums, 194, 196, 199, 221<br />

Goldwasser–Kilian, 368, 370,<br />

371, 373<br />

Grantham-Frobenius, 145<br />

Jacobi sums, 194, 199, 200<br />

Lucas, 145, 146, 148, 150<br />

Lucas–Lehmer, 4, 23, 24, 76,<br />

181, 183, 184, 456, 496,<br />

523, 528<br />

McKee, 244<br />

Miller, 142<br />

Miller–Rabin, 137<br />

partial factorization, 174<br />

Pepin, 28–30, 173, 174, 181,<br />

218–220, 380, 456<br />

proving, 173, 324, 358, 380,<br />

418<br />

rapid, 385<br />

Solovay–Strassen, 166<br />

trial division, 120<br />

prime k-tuples conjecture, 17, 20,<br />

25, 63, 80, 81<br />

prime counting, 152<br />

alternative methods, 171<br />

analytic method, 152, 158<br />

combinatorial method, 152<br />

prime life cycles, 425<br />

prime number theorem (PNT), 10,<br />

11, 34–39, 43, 51, 53, 56,<br />

58, 61, 65, 66, 68, 108,<br />

121, 127, 134, 138, 152<br />

for computer scientists, 56<br />

for residue classes, 13, 42<br />

prime numbers in music theory,<br />

430<br />

prime-producing formulae, 21, 50<br />

primes in arithmetic progression,<br />

ix, 4, 13, 61, 63, 71, 78<br />

primitive polynomial, 403<br />

primitive root, 40, 93, 207, 210,<br />

215, 223<br />

primorial, 50<br />

principal character, 40<br />

principal root, 110, 115<br />

Pritchard, P., 78, 126<br />

probable prime, 76, 132, 135–138,<br />

142, 148, 149, 198, 223,<br />

369, 370, 372, 383, 384<br />

product tree, 129, 130<br />

projective coordinates, 324<br />

Proth form, 24, 220, 456, 457<br />

Proth, F., 174, 220<br />

pseudocurves, 323, 325, 336, 337,<br />

368<br />

pseudoprime, 64, 131–133, 135, 136,<br />

143, 150, 164, 166, 168,<br />

170, 521<br />

pseudoprime testing, 146, 173<br />

Purdom, P., 251<br />

Pustyl’nikov, L., 440<br />

Putnam, H., 417, 418<br />

quadratic Diophantine representations,<br />

106<br />

quadratic forms, 239, 242<br />

quadratic nonresidues, 101, 102,<br />

112–114, 209<br />

quadratic residues, 96, 115, 276<br />

quantum computation, 418<br />

quantum fast Fourier transform<br />

(FFT), 423<br />

quantum oscillator, 420

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