Everule's blog

By Everule, history, 3 years ago, In English

This is a blog starting from the very basics of number theory, in a way that flows fluidly from one concept to another and is based in developing an intuitive feeling for the basics of elementary number theory. This is not a blog to simply gloss over. I consider more of a guided exploration into the world of discovering things in the world of number theory, and I don't expect anyone to immediately understand all the insights in this blog. But if you put an honest effort into discovering how I find these insights you will find much use for my blog.

If you do not know some notation or some elementary theorem I use you should refer to this.

Elementary definitions

Greatest common divisor, Additive structure of residues mod n, and Bezout's Theorem

Multiplicative structure of residues mod n and Fermat's little theorem

Chinese remainder theorem and linear equations modulo n

Fundamental Theorem of arithmetic

Extended Chinese remainder theorem

Multiplicative functions and Mobius inversion

Primitive roots and modular logarithm

Probabilistic primality test
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Really nice blog; it does a great job considering the amount of material it covers. Hoping to see similar stuff for other topics too.

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    Thanks for the corrections, I've updated all of those, and added some more natural proofs to make it easier to understand now. Also the Chebyshev bias is new to me, I just assumed it makes sense for all the prime count to be independent of which element of the RRS it is part of.

    I would write another wall of text for another topic, However I don't know anything I could write this much about, most other concepts are quite bounded in how much you can explain about them. If you or anybody else have an idea I'll be happy to explain it in this form.

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      Just one more correction: the claim about $$$p^k$$$ having a primitive root doesn't hold for $$$p = 2, k = 3$$$ (it holds for odd $$$p$$$, and the only powers of 2 having a primitive root are $$$2, 4$$$).