This was a question which intrigued me when I was a student: is there a meaningful mathematical statement about finite fields which is proven by induction on the characteristic of a field?
Finally and many years later I got a partial answer: a meaningful statement about prime numbers proven by induction on the size of prime [...]
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Induction over prime numbers
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