Kummer's conjecture
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In mathematics, Kummer's conjecture is either of two the conjectures made by Ernst Eduard Kummer:
- The Kummer–Vandiver conjecture about class numbers of cyclotomic fields
- Kummer's conjecture about the Kummer sumKummer sumIn mathematics, Kummer sum is the name given to certain cubic Gauss sums for a prime modulus p, with p congruent to 1 modulo 3. They are named after Ernst Kummer, who made a conjecture about the statistical properties of their arguments, as complex numbers...