Timeline for Number of irreducible polynomials of degree $r$ in $F_2[x]$
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| Sep 25, 2019 at 20:28 | comment | added | Joe Silverman | @vidyarthi L & N is certainly a great text for all things related to finite fields, but there are lots of other good expositions of this centuries-old theorem, including the I & R book, and I'm sure many others. | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 19:26 | comment | added | vidyarthi | I hope the authoritative reference for this field is Lidl and Neiderreiter's $\textit{Finite Fields}$ | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 19:59 | vote | accept | Mike | ||
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| Apr 12, 2018 at 6:04 | comment | added | KConrad | This old theorem is due to Gauss (for prime-order finite fields, the case you describe). See the start of pollack.uga.edu/gauss.pdf and reference [2] there. Maybe I & R make an attribution too, but I don't have it in front of me to check. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 1:59 | history | answered | Joe Silverman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |