Prime Generating Polynomials
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Simplest Prime Generating Polynomials
The most famous, due to Euler (1772):
Slightly modified by Legendre (1798):
Another simple one due to Legendre was:
and yet another by Lengendre:
Degree 2
These are listed at Wolfram Mathworld's Prime Generating Polynomials page: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Prime-GeneratingPolynomial.html
Degree 3
Degree 4