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Hermite’s identity and the quadratic reciprocity law

  • Franz Lemmermeyer

    Jagstzell, Germany
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Abstract

In this note, we give a proof of the quadratic reciprocity law based on Gauss’s Lemma and Hermite’s identity, which is related to other proofs using distribution relations (see Kubota [3]).

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Franz Lemmermeyer, Hermite’s identity and the quadratic reciprocity law. Elem. Math. 78 (2023), no. 4, pp. 171–173

DOI 10.4171/EM/485