biquadratic
Speech parts
1. biquadratic - Noun
2. biquadratic - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power.
A biquadrate.
A biquadratic equation.
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For a memoir on "Certain cubic and biquadratic problems" the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin awarded him the Steiner prize.
Kenneth Ireland and Michael Rosen 's A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory also has many proofs of quadratic reciprocity (and many exercises), and covers the cubic and biquadratic cases as well.
The German edition includes all of Gauss's papers on number theory: all the proofs of quadratic reciprocity, the determination of the sign of the Gauss sum, the investigations into biquadratic reciprocity, and unpublished notes.