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Wagon86

S. Wagon, "Primality testing," Math. Intelligencer, 8:3 (1986) 58-61.  MR 87m:11124

Wagstaff1988

S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., "Divisors of Mersenne numbers," Math. Comp., 40:161 (1983) 385--397.  MR679454

Wagstaff78

Wagstaff, Jr., S. S., "The irregular primes to 125,000," Math. Comp., 32 (1978) 583-591.  MR 58:10711 [Kummer was able to show that FLT was true for the regular primes.]

Wagstaff80

Wagstaff, Jr., S. S., "Large Carmichael numbers," Math. J. Okayama Univ., 22 (1980) 33-41.  MR 82c:10007

Wagstaff83

S. Wagstaff, "Divisors of Mersenne numbers," Math. Comp., 40:161 (January 1983) 385--397.  MR 84j:10052

Walfisz63

A. Walfisz, Weylsche Exponentialsummen in der neueren Zahlentheorie, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1963.  Berlin, pp. 231, MR 36,:3737

Wall60

D. D. Wall, "Fibonacci series modulo m," Amer. Math. Monthly, 67 (1960) 67.  MR 22:10945

Wang84

Y. Wang editor, Goldbach conjecture, Series in Pure Mathematics Vol, 4, World Scientific, 1984.  Singapore, pp. xi+311, ISBN 9971-966-08-5; 9971-966-09-3. MR 87h:11102 (Annotation available)

Ward1955

Ward, M., "The intrinsic divisors of Lehmer numbers," Ann. of Math. (2), 62 (1955) 230--236.  MR0071446

Ward1959

M. Ward, "Tests for primality based on Sylvester's cyclotomic numbers," Pacific J. Math., 9 (1959) 1269--1272.  MR 21:7180

Washington82

L. Washington, Introduction to cyclotomic fields, Graduate Texts in Mathematics Vol, 83, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1982.  pp. xi+389, ISBN 0-387-90622-3. (There is a later edition).  MR 85g:11001

WB1969

J. Walstrom and M. Berg, "Prime primes," Math. Mag., 42 (1969) 232.  MR0253974

WD86

H. C. Williams and H. Dubner, "The primality of R1031," Math. Comp., 47:176 (1986) 703--711.  MR 87k:11141

Weil1985

A. Weil, Number theory for beginners, Springer-Verlag, 1985.  New York, NY, ISBN 0-387-90381-X. MR 80e:10004

Wertheim1902

G. Wertheim, "Ein Beitrag zur Beurteilung des Pietro Antonio Cataldi," Bibliotheca Math., 3:3 (1902) 76--83. [Dickson [Dickson19] v.1, p.10., notes that this article summarizes Caltadi's Trattato [Cataldi1603].]

Western32

A. E. Western, "On Lucas's and Pepin's tests for the primeness of Mersenne numbers," J. London Math. Soc., 7 (1932) 130--137.

Westzynthius31

E. Westzynthius, "Über die verteilung der zahlen die zu den n ersten primzahlen teilerfremd sind," Comm. Phys. Math. Helingsfors, 5:5 (1931) 1-37.

Whitney1972

R. E. Whitney, "Initial digits for the sequence of primes," Amer. Math. Monthly, 79 (1972) 150--152.  MR 46:3472

Wieferich09

A. Wieferich, "Zum letzten Fermat'schen theorem," J. Reine Angew. Math., 136 (1909) 293--302.

Wilansky82

A. Wilansky, "Smith numbers," Two-Year College Math. J., 13 (1982) 21.

Wiles95

A. Wiles, "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's last theorem," Ann. Math., 141:3 (1995) 443--551.  MR 96d:11071 (Annotation available)

Wilf82

H. Wilf, "What is an answer?," Amer. Math. Monthly, 89 (1982) 289--292.  MR 83c:05010 [Is there a formula for the primes? Wilf draws a distinction between "formula" and "good formula."]

Willans64

C. P. Willans, "On formulae for the Nth prime number," Math. Gazette, 48 (1964) 413--415.  MR 31:2198

Williams78

H. C. Williams, "Primality testing on a computer," Ars Combin., 5 (1978) 127--185.  MR 80d:10002 [A survey of the classical primality tests.]

Williams78b

H. C. Williams, "Some primes with interesting digit patterns," Math. Comp., 32 (1978) 1306--1310.  Corrigendum in 39 (1982), 759.  MR 58:484

Williams82

H. C. Williams, "The influence of computers in the development of number theory," Comput. Math. with Appl., 8 (1982) 75-93.  MR 83c:10002

Williams87

H. C. Williams, "Effective primality tests for some integers of the forms A 5ⁿ - 1 and A 7ⁿ - 1," Math. Comp., 48 (1987) 385--403.  MR 88b:11089

Williams88

H. C. Williams, "A note on the primality of 6²ⁿ + 1 and 10²ⁿ+ 1," Fibonacci Quart., 26 (1988) 296--305.  MR 89i:11013

Williams98

H. C. Williams, Édouard Lucas and primality testing, Canadian Math. Soc. Series of Monographs and Adv. Texts Vol, 22, John Wiley \& Sons, New York, NY, 1998.  pp. x+525, ISBN 0-471-14852-0. MR 2000b:11139 (Annotation available)

Wojick1995

Wójcik, J., "On systems of composite Lehmer numbers with prime indices," Colloq. Math., 69:1 (1995) 43--46.  Edited by A. Schinzel.  MR 96d:11122

Wrathall64

C. P. Wrathall, "New factors of Fermat numbers," Math. Comp., 18 (1964) 324--325.  MR 29:1167

Wrench61

J. W. Wrench, "Evaluation of Artin's constant and the twin-prime constant," Math. Comp., 15 (1961) 396--398.  MR 23:A1619

Wright1954

Wright, E. M., "A class of representing functions," J. London Math. Soc., 29 (1954) 63--71.  MR 15,288d

Wright1960

Wright, E. M., "A functional equation in the heuristic theory of primes," Math. Gazette, 44 (1960) 15--16.  MR 23:A873

WS79

H. C. Williams and E. Seah, "Some primes of the form (aⁿ-1)/(a-1)," Math. Comp., 33 (1979) 1337--1342.  MR 80g:10014