By Ian Stewart, David Tall
ISBN-10: 1568811195
ISBN-13: 9781568811192
First released in 1979 and written by means of unique mathematicians with a distinct reward for exposition, this ebook is now on hand in a very revised 3rd version. It displays the interesting advancements in quantity idea in the past twenty years that culminated within the facts of Fermat's final Theorem. meant as a higher point textbook, it's also eminently desirable as a textual content for self-study.
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S t e p 2: q = Q mod p. S t e p 3: d = (a — b)jq (here the arithmetic is in Z/(p)). S t e p 4: If 2d > p, replace d by d — p. S t e p 5: C = dQ + B. 3. COMPUTING EXACT POLYNOMIAL RESULTANTS 51 It is noted t h a t if Q = 1 and 5 = 0, then C is the unique integer such t h a t C — a mod p and C < p / 2 . ,pk, where k > 3, is an iterative application of the above algorithm for successive pairs of moduli ( l , p i ) , (pi,P2), (PiP2,P3), •••, (Pi • --pk-uPk)T h u s , in general the first modulus is much larger than the second, which is a prime.
K. Since ab — lcm(a, 6) gcd(a, 6), we obtain D. _ l r m (icm(mi,mi) 1 V — i c m Tni Icm(m2,m,) ' m, \cm(mk,mj)\ ' '"' mi J 212 mt ) \gcd(mi,mi)' gcd(mi,m,) ''"'gcd(mjt,m,)/ (o ]A) V' / (—HU where dij = gcd(m;, rrij). 2 m^ where the c; form a set of integers satisfying the condition x = a\C\ m h a2C2 (2-15) m m m c i — + c 2 — + --- + ck— = 1. i, 5 2 , •••, Bk) = 1. It suffices to show that for each prime p at least one of the integers Bi is not divisible by p. Let pa' be the highest power of p dividing m,, and suppose without loss of generality that u\ is the greatest of these exponents, then m is divisible by pa', but Bx is not divisible by p.
1 Let m be the least common multiple m j and m%. Then the system of congruences x = ai mod m\, has solutions of two positive x = a? 10) if and only if g c d ( m i , m 2 ) | a i - a2, where a\b means that a divides b. 10) has only one solution modulo m. 11) holds, the system P r o o f : Let d = gcd(rai, 7712). 10) has a solution x0, then x0 = ai mod d, x0 = a 2 mod d. , d\a\ — a2. Now assume d\a\ — a2. 10) must be of the form x = a\ + miy, where y is some integer. 10) gives ai + miy = a2 mod m 2 , from which it follows t h a t mi T l ai - a 2 , = - j - m o d m2 .
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