Representing Primes as x2 + 5y2: An Inductive Proof that Euler Missed
Abstract
We present an elementary inductive proof which Euler could have obtained, for the corresponding result as the title indicates, had he refined a bit his proof for Fermat's assertion on representing primes as two squares.
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