PRIMES is in P
Randomized tests had been fast for decades, but no deterministic polynomial-time test was known. AKS found one using elementary algebra, and two of the three authors were undergraduates. In practice randomized tests are still used; the result settled the question of principle.
Evidence tier V3 is the import default for a result the curation records as settled in the published record. No formal proof or certificate is attached to this page yet.
Closed 2002, Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena.
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