Dickson's conjecture

English Etymology Introduced by Leonard Eugene Dickson in 1904. Proper noun en number theory The conjecture that, for a finite set of linear forms a1 + b1n, a2 + b2n, ..., ak + bkn with bi ≥ 1, there are infinitely many positive integers n for which they are all prime, unless there is a congruence condition preventing this. en eponyms