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Can anything deep be said uniformly about conjectures like Goldbach's?

There exist surprising counterexamples. Elsholtz and Dietmann found the following: If $p\equiv 7\pmod{8}$ is prime, then the equation $x^2+y^2+z^4=p^2$ has no non-trivial solution. You might argue tha …
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A conjecture based on Wilson's theorem

For an integer $n$ with $1\leq n\leq p-1$, let $n^{-1}$ be the inverse of $n$ modulo $p$. It follows from Weil's bound on Kloosterman sums that for every $\epsilon>0$ the set $\{n: xp\leq n\leq (x+\ep …
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