# Infinitely many primes for quadratic residues

Let $a \in \mathbb{N}.$ Prove there are infinitely many primes $p$ satisfies $$\left(\frac{a}{p}\right) =1$$.

Remark: One may need to use the Dirichlet theorem, which states that if $a,m$ are coprime then there exists infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p \equiv a \pmod{m}.$

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Proposition: Let $f(x) \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ be a nonconstant polynomial with nonzero constant term. Then there exist infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p | f(n)$ for some $n \in \mathbb{Z}$.
To get the desired result take $f(x) = x^2 - a$.
Proof 1. Euler's proof of the infinitude of the primes carries over to this result. Certainly there exists at least one such prime. If $p_1, ... p_n$ are a finite collection of such primes, then $\frac{f(k f(0) p_1 ... p_n))}{f(0)}$ is relatively prime to each $p_i$ for any $k$, so for sufficiently large $k$ it has a prime divisor not among the $p_i$.
Proof 2. More generally we can replace $f(n)$ by a sequence which grows at most polynomially. See http://qchu.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/some-remarks-on-the-infinitude-of-primes/.