OFFSET
1,1
REFERENCES
Beiler, A. H. "The Pellian." Ch. 22 in Recreations in the Theory of Numbers: The Queen of Mathematics Entertains. New York: Dover, pp. 248-268, 1966.
Cohn, H. "Pell's Equation." Sect. 6.9 in Advanced Number Theory. New York: Dover, pp. 110-111, 1980.
Cox, D. A. Primes of the form x^2 + ny^2. New York: Wiley, 1989.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pell Equation
FORMULA
n prime and x prime, where (x, y) is the smallest solution to the Pell equation x^2 - n*(y^2) = 1.
EXAMPLE
a(1) = 2 because 2 is prime, 3 is prime and (3,2) is the smallest x,y solution such that x^2 - 2*(y^2) = 1.
a(2) = 3 because 3 is prime, 2 is prime and (2,1) is the smallest x,y solution such that x^2 - 3*(y^2) = 1.
a(3) = 37 because 37 is prime, 73 is prime and (73,12) is the smallest x,y solution such that x^2 - 37*(y^2) = 1.
a(4) = 73 because 73 is prime, 2281249 is prime and (2281249,267000) is the smallest x,y solution such that x^2 - 73*(y^2) = 1.
a(5) = 97 because 97 is prime, 62809633 is prime and (62809633,6377352) is the smallest x,y solution such that x^2 - 97*(y^2) = 1.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Jonathan Vos Post, Aug 10 2005
EXTENSIONS
More terms from T. D. Noe, May 17 2007
STATUS
approved