Heegner number
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Kurt Heegner, German mathematician.
Noun
[edit]Heegner number (plural Heegner numbers)
- (mathematics) A squarefree positive integer d such that the imaginary quadratic field Q(√(−d)) has class number 1; equivalently, such that its ring of integers has unique factorization.