Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The term primitive element can describe several things, in mathematics: a primitive root modulo n primitive elements in relation to field theory, and the primitive element theorem: see glossary of field theory, primitive element (field theory). This is a disambiguation page. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.