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The first author thanks I. R. Shafarevich and A. G. Sergeev for providing biographical material on Chebotarëv. The second author was supported by NSF under grant No. DMS 92-24205. Part of the work reported in this article was done while the second author was on appointment as a Miller Research Professor in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science. D. J. Bernstein, J. A. Buchmann, G. H. Frei, A. C. P. Gee, S. J. P. Hillion, A. Schinzel, and V. M. Tikhomirov kindly provided assistance.

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Stevenhagen, P., Lenstra, H.W. Chebotarëv and his density theorem. The Mathematical Intelligencer 18, 26–37 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03027290

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