Dickson's conjecture

English

Etymology

Introduced by Leonard Eugene Dickson in 1904.

Proper noun

Dickson's conjecture

1. (number theory) The conjecture that, for a finite set of linear forms a₁ + b₁n, a₂ + b₂n, ..., a_k + b_kn with b_i ≥ 1, there are infinitely many positive integers n for which they are all prime, unless there is a congruence condition preventing this.