On 8 April he became the first to prove the quadratic reciprocity law.
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Its immense bibliography includes literature citations for 196 different published proofs for the quadratic reciprocity law.
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The latter property is called the " global reciprocity law " and is a far reaching generalization of the Gauss quadratic reciprocity law.
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In number theory, he conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law, subsequently proved by Gauss; in connection to this, the Legendre symbol is named after him.
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The Artin reciprocity law, which is a high level generalisation of the Gauss quadratic reciprocity law, states that the product vanishes on the multiplicative group of the number field.
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The description is in terms of Frobenius elements, and generalises in a far-reaching way the quadratic reciprocity law that gives full information on the decomposition of prime numbers in quadratic fields.
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Several more recent generalizations express reciprocity laws using cohomology of groups or representations of adelic groups or algebraic K-groups, and their relationship with the original quadratic reciprocity law can be hard to see.
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These laws follow easily from each version of quadratic reciprocity law stated above ( unlike with Legendre and Jacobi symbol where both the main law and the supplementary laws are needed to fully describe the quadratic reciprocity ).
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That the zeta function of a quadratic field is a product of the Riemann zeta function and a certain Dirichlet " L "-function is an analytic formulation of the quadratic reciprocity law of Gauss.
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Just as the quadratic reciprocity law for the Legendre symbol is also true for the Jacobi symbol, the requirement that the numbers be prime is not needed; it suffices that they be odd relatively prime nonunits.