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The Law of Quadratic Reciprocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

P. J. Heawood
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In connection with the article on Quadratic Residues in the December number of the Gazette, a neat graphical method, which I first put forward in 1913, may be of interest.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 23 , Issue 254 , May 1939 , pp. 198 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1939

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Page 198 of note * Proc. Lon. Math. Soc., Series 2, Vol. 12, Part 5.

Page 199 of note * It is easily seen that if ; so that the point in question will have been inserted in Fig. 1 at the stage supposed.

Page 199 of note † This is so because, as we saw at the outset, the (p - l)th point would come at a distance q behind O.