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September 9 Lecture 10

Quadratic reciprocity and its applications

quadratic reciprocityJacobi symbolsum of two squares
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September 4 Lecture 9

The law of quadratic reciprocity

quadratic reciprocitycounting lattice points
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September 2 Lecture 8

Gauss's lemma (cont.)

Gauss's lemma2 modulo p
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August 31 Lecture 7

Gauss's lemma

Wilson's theoremfloor functionGauss's lemma
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August 28 Lecture 6

Euler's criterion and its applications

quadratic residues & nonresiduesEuler's criterionLegrendre symbol-1 modulo p
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August 26 Lecture 5

Quadratic residues and nonresidues

polynomial congruencesLagrange's theoremquadratic congruencesquadratic residues & nonresidues
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August 24 Lecture 4

Euler's theorem and linear congruence equations

residue classesEuler's totient functionEuler's theoremFermat's little theoremlinear congruences
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August 21 Lecture 3

Review of unique factorization (complete), review of Euclidean algorithm and congruences

FTAUFDEuclidean domainEuclidean algorithmcongruences
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August 19 Lecture 2

Review of unique factorization (cont.)

FTAidealsPIDgcdBézout's lemmaEuclid's lemma
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August 17 Lecture 1

Course introduction and review of unique factorization

syllabusdivisibilityunitsprimes and compositesFTAdivision algorithm
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