Suppose that is equal to a perfect square, where is a prime number. What is the value of ?
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We have p 2 0 1 4 + p 2 0 1 5 = p 2 0 1 4 ( p + 1 ) . Since p 2 0 1 4 is a perfect square of p 1 0 0 7 , we need p + 1 = n 2 for certain n ∈ N . This gives p = n 2 − 1 = ( n + 1 ) ( n − 1 ) ; hence for p to be prime we need n − 1 = 1 giving us n = 2 and p = 3 .