Primitive element

In field theory, a branch of mathematics, a primitive element of a finite field GF(q) is a generator of the multiplicative group of the field, which is necessarily cyclic.

See also

• Primitive element (field theory)
• Primitive root

References

• Jacobson, Nathan (1985). Basic Algebra I (2nd ed ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman and Co.. ISBN 978-0-7167-1480-4. 
• Lidl, Rudolf; Harald Niederreiter (1997). Finite Fields (2nd ed ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39231-4. 

External links

• Weisstein, Eric W.. "Primitive Polynomial". http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimitivePolynomial.html.