The attraction of a Wright-Johnson pairing becomes apparent as Howard sketches in the details and the congruences pile up.
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Nicolas Verin, Francis Courtot, Michael Jarrell. "Congruences de Michael Jarrell. Suivi de L'utilisation de la CAO dans Congruences." 1990 In 2016, the composition problem he proposed was successfully solved using a Constraint programming.
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Gauss started to write an eighth section on higher-order congruences, but did not complete it, and it was published separately after his death as a treatise titled "general investigations on congruences". In it Gauss discussed congruences of arbitrary degree, attacking the problem of general congruences from a standpoint closely related to that taken later by Dedekind, Galois, and Emil Artin. The treatise paved the way for the theory of function fields over a finite field of constants. Ideas unique to that treatise are clear recognition of the importance of the Frobenius morphism, and a version of Hensel's lemma.
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In mathematics, a congruence is an equivalence relation on the integers. The following sections list important or interesting prime-related congruences.
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The book is divided into seven sections: 1. Congruent Numbers in General 2. Congruences of the First Degree 3. Residues of Powers 4.
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The cover topics in elementary number theory, algebraic number theory and analytic number theory, including modular arithmetic, quadratic congruences, quadratic reciprocity and binary quadratic forms.
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Congruences between Hecke rings ::503 3. The main conjectures :Chapter 3 ::517 Estimates for the Selmer group :Chapter 4 ::525 1. The ordinary CM case ::533 2.
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He proved many congruences for these numbers, such as for primes . This congruence (and others like it that Ramanujan proved) inspired Jean-Pierre Serre (1954 Fields Medalist) to conjecture that there is a theory of Galois representations that "explains" these congruences and more generally all modular forms. is the first example of a modular form to be studied in this way. Deligne (in his Fields Medal-winning work) proved Serre's conjecture.
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Domenico Alfonso Emmanuele Montesano (Potenza, 22 December 1863 - Naples, 1 October 1930) was an Italian mathematician. He influenced and developed the theory on linear congruences and on the conic bilinear complexes.
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Alhazen's contributions to number theory include his work on perfect numbers. In his Analysis and Synthesis, he may have been the first to state that every even perfect number is of the form 2n−1(2n − 1) where 2n − 1 is prime, but he was not able to prove this result; Euler later proved it in the 18th century. Alhazen solved problems involving congruences using what is now called Wilson's theorem. In his Opuscula, Alhazen considers the solution of a system of congruences, and gives two general methods of solution.
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Secret sharing consists of recovering a secret S from a set of shares, each containing partial information about the secret. The Chinese remainder theorem (CRT) states that for a given system of simultaneous congruence equations, the solution is unique in some , with under some appropriate conditions on the congruences. Secret sharing can thus use the CRT to produce the shares presented in the congruence equations and the secret could be recovered by solving the system of congruences to get the unique solution, which will be the secret to recover.
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Consequently, Conc FV(Ω) does not satisfy Schmidt's Condition. It is proved by Tůma and Wehrung in 2001 that Conc FV(Ω) is not isomorphic to Conc L, for any lattice L with permutable congruences. By using a slight weakening of WURP, this result is extended to arbitrary algebras with permutable congruences by Růžička, Tůma, and Wehrung in 2006. Hence, for example, if Ω has at least ℵ2 elements, then Conc FV(Ω) is not isomorphic to the normal subgroup lattice of any group, or the submodule lattice of any module.
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Pál Turán In number theory, the Turán sieve is a technique for estimating the size of "sifted sets" of positive integers which satisfy a set of conditions which are expressed by congruences. It was developed by Pál Turán in 1934.
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Reye worked on conic sections, quadrics and projective geometry. Reye's work on linear manifolds of projective plane pencils and of bundles on spheres influenced later work by Corrado Segre on manifolds. He introduced Reye congruences, the earliest examples of Enriques surfaces.
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In the theory of smooth manifolds, a congruence is the set of integral curves defined by a nonvanishing vector field defined on the manifold. Congruences are an important concept in general relativity, and are also important in parts of Riemannian geometry.
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Since modular arithmetic has such a wide range of applications, it is important to know how hard it is to solve a system of congruences. A linear system of congruences can be solved in polynomial time with a form of Gaussian elimination, for details see linear congruence theorem. Algorithms, such as Montgomery reduction, also exist to allow simple arithmetic operations, such as multiplication and exponentiation modulo , to be performed efficiently on large numbers. Some operations, like finding a discrete logarithm or a quadratic congruence appear to be as hard as integer factorization and thus are a starting point for cryptographic algorithms and encryption.
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In general relativity, a timelike congruence in a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold can be interpreted as a family of world lines of certain ideal observers in our spacetime. In particular, a timelike geodesic congruence can be interpreted as a family of free-falling test particles. Null congruences are also important, particularly null geodesic congruences, which can be interpreted as a family of freely propagating light rays. Warning: the world line of a pulse of light moving in a fiber optic cable would not in general be a null geodesic, and light in the very early universe (the radiation-dominated epoch) was not freely propagating.
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In the field of number theory, the Brun sieve (also called Brun's pure sieve) is a technique for estimating the size of "sifted sets" of positive integers which satisfy a set of conditions which are expressed by congruences. It was developed by Viggo Brun in 1915.
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Atle Selberg In mathematics, in the field of number theory, the Selberg sieve is a technique for estimating the size of "sifted sets" of positive integers which satisfy a set of conditions which are expressed by congruences. It was developed by Atle Selberg in the 1940s.
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Shu-shu chiu-chang, or Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections, was written by the wealthy governor and minister Ch'in Chiu- shao (ca. 1202 – ca. 1261 AD) and with the invention of a method of solving simultaneous congruences, it marks the high point in Chinese indeterminate analysis.
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Congruences of the Second Degree 5. Forms and Indeterminate Equations of the Second Degree 6. Various Applications of the Preceding Discussions 7. Equations Defining Sections of a Circle These sections are subdivided into 366 numbered items, which state a theorem with proof or otherwise develop a remark or thought.
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Multi-dimensional approach to the experimental study of interpersonal attraction: Effect of a blunder on the attractiveness of a Competent other. Psychological Reports, 22(3), 693-705. This research implies that similarities in attitude can be more significant in determining attractiveness, especially with knowledge of congruences in attitude.
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Describing the mutual motion of the test particles in a null geodesic congruence in a spacetime such as the Schwarzschild vacuum or FRW dust is a very important problem in general relativity. It is solved by defining certain kinematical quantities which completely describe how the integral curves in a congruence may converge (diverge) or twist about one another. It should be stressed that the kinematical decomposition we are about to describe is pure mathematics valid for any Lorentzian manifold. However, the physical interpretation in terms of test particles and tidal accelerations (for timelike geodesic congruences) or pencils of light rays (for null geodesic congruences) is valid only for general relativity (similar interpretations may be valid in closely related theories).
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Shu-shu chiu-chang, or Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections, was written by the wealthy governor and minister Ch'in Chiu-shao (c. 1202 – c. 1261) and with the invention of a method of solving simultaneous congruences, now called Chinese remainder theorem, it marks the high point in Chinese indeterminate analysis.
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Naomi G. Jochnowitz is an American mathematician interested in algebraic number theory. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester. Jochnowitz earned her Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University. Her dissertation, Congruences Between Modular Forms and Implications for the Hecke Algebra, was supervised by Barry Mazur.
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He was one of those who initiated mathematics in the Philippines. He contributed extensively to the progression of mathematics and the mathematics learning in the country. He has made fundamental studies such as on stratifiable congruences and geometric inequalities. Dr. Favila has also co- authored textbooks in algebra and trigonometry.
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Therefore, angles OBA and OBC are equal. Finally, because they form a complete circle, we have :∠OBA + ∠ABD + ∠DBC + ∠CBO = 360° but, due to the congruences, angle OBA = angle OBC and angle DBA = angle DBC, thus :2 × ∠OBA + 2 × ∠DBA = 360° :∠OBA + ∠DBA = 180° therefore points O, B, and D are collinear.
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Compare with the story of the Theban Amphion (see below). As noted by Fontenrose, there are other apparent congruences between the Theban Melia and Europa.Fontenrose, p. 318. Like Melia, Europa was also the name of an Oceanid,Hesiod, Theogony 357; Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7 (Fowler 2013, p. 13).
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Congruences of the plane form two distinct classes. The first conserves the orientation and is generated by translations and rotations. The second does not conserve the orientation and is obtained from the first class by applying a reflection. On the complex plane these two classes correspond (up to translation) to unitaries and antiunitaries, respectively.
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Left to right: Georges Reeb, Paul Vincensini, and Charles Ehresmann, at a topology conference in Oberwolfach, 1949 Paul Félix Vincensini (30 April 1896, Bastia – 9 August 1978, La Ciotat)Paul Vincensini (1896 / 1978) was a French mathematician. In 1927, he wrote his dissertation Sur trois types de congruences rectilignes at the University of Toulouse.Record at data.bnf.frRecord at bibliotheques.mnhn.
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In mathematics, specifically abstract algebra, the isomorphism theorems (also known as Noether's isomorphism theorems) are theorems that describe the relationship between quotients, homomorphisms, and subobjects. Versions of the theorems exist for groups, rings, vector spaces, modules, Lie algebras, and various other algebraic structures. In universal algebra, the isomorphism theorems can be generalized to the context of algebras and congruences.
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This involved coordinating the productions of invited composers (Michael Jarrell,Congruences (1989) de Michael Jarrell, Elements d'analyse technique, by Nicolas Vérin, Francis Courtot, Michael Jarrell, IRCAM (Research institute : France) ed. IRCAM, 1990 (41 pages) Michaël Levinas,Levinas, Michaël and Castanet, Pierre-Albert (2002). "Le Compositeur Trouvère : écrits et entretiens (1982-2002)", pp. 94-97. L'Harmattan, Paris.
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In universal algebra, a congruence-permutable algebra is an algebra whose congruences commute under composition. This symmetry has several equivalent characterizations, which lend to the analysis of such algebras. Many familiar varieties of algebras, such as the variety of groups, consist of congruence- permutable algebras, but some, like the variety of lattices, have members that are not congruence-permutable.
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Among his mates were Henri Lebesgue and Paul Montel. On June 30, 1899 he defended his doctoral thesis titled Sur les congruences cycliques et sur les systemes triplement conjugues, in the framework of oblique curvature, before a board of examiners led by Gaston Darboux. Upon his return to Romania, Țițeica was appointed assistant professor at the University of Bucharest.
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The Ulam spiral of numbers, with black pixels showing prime numbers. This diagram hints at patterns in the distribution of prime numbers. Number theory is concerned with the properties of numbers in general, particularly integers. It has applications to cryptography and cryptanalysis, particularly with regard to modular arithmetic, diophantine equations, linear and quadratic congruences, prime numbers and primality testing.
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He also found a form of the paradox in the plane which uses area- preserving affine transformations in place of the usual congruences. Tarski proved that amenable groups are precisely those for which no paradoxical decompositions exist. Since only free subgroups are needed in the Banach–Tarski paradox, this led to the long-standing von Neumann conjecture, which was disproved in 1980.
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Attempts to extend the concept of Born rigidity to general relativity have been made by Salzmann & Taub (1954), C. Beresford Rayner (1959),Rayner (1959) Pirani & Williams (1962), Robert H. Boyer (1964).Boyer (1965) It was shown that the Herglotz-Noether theorem is not completely satisfied, because rigid rotating frames or congruences are possible which do not represent isometric Killing motions.
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Hathaway studied with James Joseph Sylvester at Johns Hopkins University. From Sylvester's lectures he learned some number theory and published notes on congruences. He was an instructor at Cornell University from 1885 to 1890 and an assistant professor in 1891. In October 1884 William Thomson, Baron Kelvin led a master class on "Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light" at Johns Hopkins.
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An r-component multipartition of an integer n is an r-tuple of partitions λ(1),...,λ(r) where each λ(i) is a partition of some ai and the ai sum to n. The number of r-component multipartitions of n is denoted Pr(n). Congruences for the function Pr(n) have been studied by A. O. L. Atkin.
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In algebra, the congruence ideal of a surjective ring homomorphism f : B → C of commutative rings is the image under f of the annihilator of the kernel of f. It is called a congruence ideal because when B is a Hecke algebra and f is a homomorphism corresponding to a modular form, the congruence ideal describes congruences between the modular form of f and other modular forms.
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Ivor Robinson contributed extensively to modern developments in the theory of relativity. He is known for his pioneering work on null electromagnetic fields, for his collaboration with Andrzej Trautman on models for spherical gravitational waves, and for the Bel–Robinson tensor. Roger Penrose has credited him as an important influence in the development of twistor theory, through his construction of the so- called Robinson congruences.
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Canonical dual compound of cuboctahedron (light) and rhombic dodecahedron (dark). Pairs of edges meet on their common midsphere. Any convex polyhedron can be distorted into a canonical form, in which a unit midsphere (or intersphere) exists tangent to every edge, and such that the average position of the points of tangency is the center of the sphere. This form is unique up to congruences.
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He received his B.A. from Clare College, Cambridge.SAVILIAN PROFESSORSHIP OF GEOMETRY in NOTICES, University Gazette 23.3.95 No. 4359 During his time at Cambridge, he was president of The Archimedeans in 1981 and 1982, following the resignation of his predecessor. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1988 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "On congruences between modular forms", under the supervision of Andrew Wiles.
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The relations are given as a (finite) binary relation on . To form the quotient monoid, these relations are extended to monoid congruences as follows: First, one takes the symmetric closure of . This is then extended to a symmetric relation by defining if and only if = and = for some strings with . Finally, one takes the reflexive and transitive closure of , which then is a monoid congruence.
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Since vector fields can be visualized as stream-lines of a stationary flow or as Faraday’s lines of force, a non-vanishing vector field in space generates a space-filling system of lines through each point, known to mathematicians as a congruence (i.e., a local foliation). Ricci’s vision filled Riemann’s n-dimensional manifold with n congruences orthogonal to each other, i.e., a local orthogonal grid.
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The Bernoulli numbers are related to Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT) by Kummer's theorem , which says: :If the odd prime does not divide any of the numerators of the Bernoulli numbers then has no solutions in nonzero integers. Prime numbers with this property are called regular primes. Another classical result of Kummer are the following congruences. :Let be an odd prime and an even number such that does not divide .
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There are other prime-related congruences that provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the primality of certain subsequences of the natural numbers. Many of these alternate statements characterizing primality are related to Wilson's theorem, or are restatements of this classical result given in terms of other special variants of generalized factorial functions. For instance, new variants of Wilson's theorem stated in terms of the hyperfactorials, subfactorials, and superfactorials are given in.
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The last figure is neither. Congruences alter some properties, such as location and orientation, but leave others unchanged, like distance and angles. The latter sort of properties are called invariants and studying them is the essence of geometry. Euclid refers to a pair of lines, or a pair of planar or solid figures, as "equal" (ἴσος) if their lengths, areas, or volumes are equal respectively, and similarly for angles.
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Suppose that and are both solutions to all the congruences. As and give the same remainder, when divided by , their difference is a multiple of each . As the are pairwise coprime, their product divides also , and thus and are congruent modulo . If and are supposed to be non negative and less than (as in the first statement of the theorem), then their difference may be a multiple of only if .
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Theorem (Funayama and Nakayama 1942). The congruence lattice of any lattice is distributive. This says that α ∧ (β ∨ γ) = (α ∧ β) ∨ (α ∧ γ), for any congruences α, β, and γ of a given lattice. The analogue of this result fails, for instance, for modules, as A\cap(B+C) eq(A\cap B)+(A\cap C), as a rule, for submodules A, B, C of a given module.
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The latter condition rules out Euclidean congruences such as simple translation and rotation. It is also possible to consider rigidity problems for graphs in which some edges represent compression elements (able to stretch to a longer length, but not to shrink to a shorter length) while other edges represent tension elements (able to shrink but not stretch). A rigid graph with edges of these types forms a mathematical model of a tensegrity structure.
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Togliatti surface, a quintic surface with 31 crunodes (the maximum possible) He made important contributions to the theory of Cremona transformations and handled the linear congruences and conical bilinear complexes. He discovered 30 new rational surfaces of the 5th order. He was the author of over fifty scholarly publications relating to Cremonian address geometry. Montesano's studies that mostly interested the international academic environment concerned the geometry of the straight line and the Cremonian transformations.
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Normaliz is a free computer algebra system developed by Winfried Bruns, Robert Koch (1998–2002), Bogdam Ichim (2007/08) and Christof Soeger (2009–2016). It is published under the GNU General Public License version 2. Normaliz computes lattice points in rational polyhedra, or, in other terms, solves linear diophantine systems of equations, inequalities, and congruences. Special tasks are the computation of lattice points in bounded rational polytopes and Hilbert bases of rational cones.
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A computationally large safe prime is likely to be a cryptographically strong prime. Note that the criteria for determining if a pseudoprime is a strong pseudoprime is by congruences to powers of a base, not by inequality to the arithmetic mean of neighboring pseudoprimes. When a prime is equal to the mean of its neighboring primes, it's called a balanced prime. When it's less, it's called a weak prime (not to be confused with a weakly prime number).
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In modular arithmetic, the method of successive substitution is a method of solving problems of simultaneous congruences by using the definition of the congruence equation. It is commonly applied in cases where the conditions of the Chinese remainder theorem are not satisfied. There is also an unrelated numerical-analysis method of successive substitution, a randomized algorithm used for root finding, an application of fixed-point iteration. The method of successive substitution is also known as back substitution.
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Wieferich primes can be defined by other equivalent congruences. If p is a Wieferich prime, one can multiply both sides of the congruence by 2 to get . Raising both sides of the congruence to the power p shows that a Wieferich prime also satisfies , and hence for all . The converse is also true: for some implies that the multiplicative order of 2 modulo p2 divides gcd, φ, that is, and thus p is a Wieferich prime.
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The surface is designated trapped if the cross sections of both congruences decrease in area as they exit the surface; and this is apparent in the mean curvature vector, which is: Hɑ= −θ+k−ɑ − θ−k+ɑ The surface is trapped if both the null expansions θ± are negative, signifying that the mean curvature vector is timelike and future directed. The surface is marginally trapped if the outer expansion θ+ = 0 and the inner expansion θ− ≤ 0.
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Lawyers for Dickhuth gave notice that they would be mounting a legal challenge against the decision. On 28 May 2014 a radio report indicated that other habilitation dissertations successfully submitted at Freiburg University also included extensive textual congruences with doctoral works by others. Some of these habilitation dissertations came from professors who had themselves backed the university's withdrawal of recognition from Dickhuth's habilitation. Furthermore, textual analysis suggested that some of the textual extracts in question appeared to have been composed by Dickhuth himself.
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Garvan is well-known for his work in the fields of q-series and integer partitions. Most famously, in 1988, Garvan and Andrews discovered a definition of the crank of a partition. The crank of a partition is an elusive combinatorial statistic similar to the rank of a partition which provides a key to the study of Ramanujan congruences in partition theory. It was first described by Freeman Dyson in a paper on ranks for the journal Eureka in 1944.
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Gauss's 1801 book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. The notion of congruences was first introduced and used by Gauss in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of 1801. Gauss illustrates the Chinese remainder theorem on a problem involving calendars, namely, "to find the years that have a certain period number with respect to the solar and lunar cycle and the Roman indiction." Gauss introduces a procedure for solving the problem that had already been used by Euler but was in fact an ancient method that had appeared several times.
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It grows as an exponential function of the square root of its argument. The multiplicative inverse of its generating function is the Euler function; by Euler's pentagonal number theorem this function is an alternating sum of pentagonal number powers of its argument. Srinivasa Ramanujan first discovered that the partition function has nontrivial patterns in modular arithmetic, now known as Ramanujan's congruences. For instance, whenever the decimal representation of n ends in the digit 4 or 9, the number of partitions of n will be divisible by 5.
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The Kerr geometry exhibits many noteworthy features: the maximal analytic extension includes a sequence of asymptotically flat exterior regions, each associated with an ergosphere, stationary limit surfaces, event horizons, Cauchy horizons, closed timelike curves, and a ring-shaped curvature singularity. The geodesic equation can be solved exactly in closed form. In addition to two Killing vector fields (corresponding to time translation and axisymmetry), the Kerr geometry admits a remarkable Killing tensor. There is a pair of principal null congruences (one ingoing and one outgoing).
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Examples: (1) For an algebra B and a reduct A of B (that is, an algebra with same underlying set as B but whose set of operations is a subset of the one of B), the canonical (∨, 0)-homomorphism from Conc A to Conc B is weakly distributive. Here, Conc A denotes the (∨, 0)-semilattice of all compact congruences of A. (2) For a convex sublattice K of a lattice L, the canonical (∨, 0)-homomorphism from Conc K to Conc L is weakly distributive.
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Thus (x + y) and (x − y) each contain factors of n, but those factors can be trivial. In this case we need to find another x and y. Computing the greatest common divisors of (x + y, n) and of (x - y, n) will give us these factors; this can be done quickly using the Euclidean algorithm. Congruences of squares are extremely useful in integer factorization algorithms and are extensively used in, for example, the quadratic sieve, general number field sieve, continued fraction factorization, and Dixon's factorization.
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Monoids may be given a presentation, much in the same way that groups can be specified by means of a group presentation. One does this by specifying a set of generators Σ, and a set of relations on the free monoid Σ∗. One does this by extending (finite) binary relations on Σ∗ to monoid congruences, and then constructing the quotient monoid, as above. Given a binary relation , one defines its symmetric closure as . This can be extended to a symmetric relation by defining if and only if and for some strings with .
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In 1900, he became professor for infinitesimal calculus at Modena. There, he became dean from 1913 to 1919, then moved back to the University of Bologna, where he retired in 1936. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 in Toronto and in 1928 in Bologna. Bortolotti must also be considered a differential geometer and a relativist too. In fact, in the year 1929, he commented on the geometric basis for Einstein’s absolute parallelism theory in a paper entitled "Stars of congruences and absolute parallelism: Geometric basis for a recent theory of Einstein".
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Viatcheslav Mikhailovich Kharlamov (Вячеслав Михайлович Харламов, born 28 January 1950, Leningrad) is a Russian-French mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and differential topology. Kharlamov studied from 1967 to 1972 at Leningrad State University, where he received his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) in 1975 under Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin with thesis Congruences and inequalities for the Euler characteristic of real and projective algebraic varieties (Russian). From 1968, he taught at a secondary school (in addition to research at the university) and from 1976, he was a professor at the university in Syktyvkar.
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At first they were poor; Sergey worked as a stevedore and as an unskilled labourer while his wife worked as a cook and a laundress. In 1895 Alexander was enrolled into a PhD program in Johns Hopkins University with majors in mathematics and astronomy and a minor in English. During his study he was financially supported by his wife who continued to work as a cook. He received his doctorate in 1897 for the dissertation On the Focal surfaces of the Congruences of Tangents to a Given Surface.
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Theodor Schönemann, also written Schoenemann (4 April 181216 January 1868), was a German mathematician who obtained several important results in number theory concerning the theory of congruences, which can be found in several publications in Crelle's journal, volumes 17 to 40. Notably he obtained Hensel's lemma before Hensel, Scholz's reciprocity law before Scholz, and formulated Eisenstein's criterion before Eisenstein.David A. Cox, "Why Eisenstein proved the Eisenstein criterion and why Schönemann discovered it first", American Mathematical Monthly 118 Vol 1, January 2011, pp. 3–31. The mentioned statement is on p. 13.
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Yves Cochet (born 15 February 1946) is a French politician, member of Europe Écologie–The Greens. He was minister in the government of Lionel Jospin. On 6 December 2011, he was elected member of the European Parliament (MEP).Yves Cochet European Parliament MEP and Incoming-Outgoing He studied Mathematics and became researcher-lecturer at Institut National des Sciences appliquées -Rennes in 1969. In June 1971, teaming with Maurice Nivat, he obtained a PhD for his research on « Sur l’algébricité des classes de certaines congruences définies sur le monoïde libre ».
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It is neither a history nor a treatise, but something intermediate. The author analyzes with remarkable clearness and order the works of mathematicians for the preceding century upon the theory of congruences, and upon that of binary quadratic forms. He returns to the original sources, indicates the principle and sketches the course of the demonstrations, and states the result, often adding something of his own. During the preparation of the Report, and as a logical consequence of the researches connected therewith, Smith published several original contributions to the higher arithmetic.
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While Greek astronomy probably influenced Indian learning, to the point of introducing trigonometry, it seems to be the case that Indian mathematics is otherwise an indigenous tradition;Any early contact between Babylonian and Indian mathematics remains conjectural . in particular, there is no evidence that Euclid's Elements reached India before the 18th century. Āryabhaṭa (476–550 CE) showed that pairs of simultaneous congruences n\equiv a_1 \bmod m_1, n\equiv a_2 \bmod m_2 could be solved by a method he called kuṭṭaka, or pulveriser;Āryabhaṭa, Āryabhatīya, Chapter 2, verses 32–33, cited in: . See also .
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There is a close relationship between the pragmatic theory of signs and the pragmatic theory of inquiry. In fact, the correspondence between the two studies exhibits so many congruences and parallels that it is often best to treat them as integral parts of one and the same subject. In a very real sense, inquiry is the process by which sign relations come to be established and continue to evolve. In other words, inquiry, "thinking" in its best sense, "is a term denoting the various ways in which things acquire significance" (John Dewey).
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The suggestion of Hugo Steinhaus is that the (central) triangle with sides p,q,r be reflected in its sides and vertices.Hugo Steinhaus (1960) Mathematical Snapshots These six extra triangles partially cover ABC, and leave six overhanging extra triangles lying outside ABC. Focusing on the parallelism of the full construction (offered by Martin Gardner through James Randi’s on-line magazine), the pair- wise congruences of overhanging and missing pieces of ABC is evident. As seen in the graphical solution, six plus the original equals the whole triangle ABC.
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Salvatore and T. Shima, "Of coconuts and integrity," Crux Mathematicorum, 4 (1978) 182–185 Clever and succinct solutions using modulo congruences, sieves, and alternate number bases have been devised based partly or mostly on the recursive definition of the problem, a structure that won't be applicable in the general case. The smallest positive solutions to both versions are sufficiently large that trial and error is very likely to be fruitless. An ingenious concept of negative coconuts was introduced that fortuitously solves the original problem. Formalistic solutions are based on Euclid's algorithm applied to the Diophantine coefficients.
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It also gives a systematic exposition of the geometric properties of bundles (in mathematical terms: congruences) of light beams. Spacetime geometry can influence the propagation of light, making them converge on or diverge from each other, or deforming the bundle's cross section without changing its area. The paper formalizes these possible changes in the bundle in terms of the bundle's expansion (convergence/divergence), and twist and shear (cross-section area- conserving deformation), linking those properties to spacetime geometry. One result is the Ehlers-Sachs theorem describing the properties of the shadow produced by a narrow beam of light encountering an opaque object.
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The lattice Con(A) of all congruence relations on an algebra A is algebraic. John M. Howie described how semigroup theory illustrates congruence relations in universal algebra: :In a group a congruence is determined if we know a single congruence class, in particular if we know the normal subgroup which is the class containing the identity. Similarly, in a ring a congruence is determined if we know the ideal which is the congruence class containing the zero. In semigroups there is no such fortunate occurrence, and we are therefore faced with the necessity of studying congruences as such.
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Congruences are defined on inverse semigroups in exactly the same way as for any other semigroup: a congruence ρ is an equivalence relation that is compatible with semigroup multiplication, i.e., :a\,\rho\,b,\quad c\,\rho\,d\Longrightarrow ac\,\rho\,bd. Of particular interest is the relation \sigma, defined on an inverse semigroup S by :a\,\sigma\,b\Longleftrightarrow there exists a c\in S with c\leq a,b. It can be shown that σ is a congruence and, in fact, it is a group congruence, meaning that the factor semigroup S/σ is a group.
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Kozen states that Cobham and Edmonds are "generally credited with the invention of the notion of polynomial time." Cobham invented the class as a robust way of characterizing efficient algorithms, leading to Cobham's thesis. However, H. C. Pocklington, in a 1910 paper, analyzed two algorithms for solving quadratic congruences, and observed that one took time "proportional to a power of the logarithm of the modulus" and contrasted this with one that took time proportional "to the modulus itself or its square root", thus explicitly drawing a distinction between an algorithm that ran in polynomial time versus one that did not.
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This can be seen as a form of polynomial interpolation with harmonic base functions, see trigonometric interpolation and trigonometric polynomial. Hermite interpolation problems are those where not only the values of the polynomial p at the nodes are given, but also all derivatives up to a given order. This turns out to be equivalent to a system of simultaneous polynomial congruences, and may be solved by means of the Chinese remainder theorem for polynomials. Birkhoff interpolation is a further generalization where only derivatives of some orders are prescribed, not necessarily all orders from 0 to a k.
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In mathematics, a dilation is a function f from a metric space into itself that satisfies the identity :d(f(x),f(y))=rd(x,y) for all points (x, y), where d(x, y) is the distance from x to y and r is some positive real number.. In Euclidean space, such a dilation is a similarity of the space.. See in particular p. 110. Dilations change the size but not the shape of an object or figure. Every dilation of a Euclidean space that is not a congruence has a unique fixed point. that is called the center of dilation.. Some congruences have fixed points and others do not..
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It is used for reducing fractions to their simplest form and for performing division in modular arithmetic. Computations using this algorithm form part of the cryptographic protocols that are used to secure internet communications, and in methods for breaking these cryptosystems by factoring large composite numbers. The Euclidean algorithm may be used to solve Diophantine equations, such as finding numbers that satisfy multiple congruences according to the Chinese remainder theorem, to construct continued fractions, and to find accurate rational approximations to real numbers. Finally, it can be used as a basic tool for proving theorems in number theory such as Lagrange's four-square theorem and the uniqueness of prime factorizations.
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In his old age, he was the first to prove "Fermat's last theorem" for n=5 (completing work by Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, and crediting both him and Sophie Germain). Carl Friedrich Gauss In his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1798), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) proved the law of quadratic reciprocity and developed the theory of quadratic forms (in particular, defining their composition). He also introduced some basic notation (congruences) and devoted a section to computational matters, including primality tests. The last section of the Disquisitiones established a link between roots of unity and number theory: > The theory of the division of the circle...which is treated in sec.
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The same function may be an invariant for one group of symmetries and equivariant for a different group of symmetries. For instance, under similarity transformations instead of congruences the area and perimeter are no longer invariant: scaling a triangle also changes its area and perimeter. However, these changes happen in a predictable way: if a triangle is scaled by a factor of , the perimeter also scales by and the area scales by . In this way, the function mapping each triangle to its area or perimeter can be seen as equivariant for a multiplicative group action of the scaling transformations on the positive real numbers.
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Karl Mahlburg is an American mathematician whose research interests lie in the areas of modular forms, partitions, combinatorics and number theory. He submitted a paper to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) entitled Partition Congruences and the Andrews-Garvan-Dyson Crank in 2005, and the paper won the PNAS first Paper of the Year prize. The paper extends a result first conjectured by Srinivasa Ramanujan and later detailed by Freeman Dyson, George Andrews, Frank Garvan, and Mahlburg's advisor Ken Ono called the crank having to do with congruence patterns in partitions. Until recently such congruence patterns were only known to occur for 5, 7, and 11.
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The inclusion–exclusion principle was stated and proved for the first time by Daniel da Silva in his memoir Propriedades geraes e resolução das congruências binomias: Introducção ao estudo da theoria dos numeros (General properties and direct resolution of binomial congruences), presented to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in 1852 and published in 1854. In this memory, Daniel da Silva also proved the following generalization of Euler's theorem: let n = a_1 a_2 \ldots a_k be an integer number where a1, ... , ak are pairwise coprime. ThenDaniel da Silva. "Propriedades geraes e resolução directa das congruencias binomias; Introdução ao estudo da theoria dos numeros", Real Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, (1854).
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Felix Klein's Erlangen program proclaimed that, in a very precise sense, symmetry, expressed via the notion of a transformation group, determines what geometry is. Symmetry in classical Euclidean geometry is represented by congruences and rigid motions, whereas in projective geometry an analogous role is played by collineations, geometric transformations that take straight lines into straight lines. However it was in the new geometries of Bolyai and Lobachevsky, Riemann, Clifford and Klein, and Sophus Lie that Klein's idea to 'define a geometry via its symmetry group' found its inspiration. Both discrete and continuous symmetries play prominent roles in geometry, the former in topology and geometric group theory, the latter in Lie theory and Riemannian geometry.
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In number theory, a cyclotomic field is a number field obtained by adjoining a complex primitive root of unity to , the field of rational numbers. The -th cyclotomic field (where ) is obtained by adjoining a primitive -th root of unity to the rational numbers. The cyclotomic fields played a crucial role in the development of modern algebra and number theory because of their relation with Fermat's last theorem. It was in the process of his deep investigations of the arithmetic of these fields (for prime ) – and more precisely, because of the failure of unique factorization in their rings of integers – that Ernst Kummer first introduced the concept of an ideal number and proved his celebrated congruences.
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The search of the solution may be made dramatically faster by sieving. For this method, we suppose, without loss of generality, that 0\le a_i (if it were not the case, it would suffice to replace each a_i by the remainder of its division by n_i). This implies that the solution belongs to the arithmetic progression :a_1, a_1 + n_1, a_1+2n_1, \ldots By testing the values of these numbers modulo n_2, one eventually finds a solution x_2 of the two first congruences. Then the solution belongs to the arithmetic progression :x_2, x_2 + n_1n_2, x_2+2n_1n_2, \ldots Testing the values of these numbers modulo n_3,, and continuing until every modulus has been tested gives eventually the solution.
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Putting this in the formula given for proving the existence gives :4\times 0 + (-3)\times 3 =-9 for a solution of the two first congruences, the other solutions being obtained by adding to −9 any multiple of . One may continue with any of these solutions, but the solution is smaller (in absolute value) and thus leads probably to an easier computation Bézout identity for 5 and 3×4 = 12 is :5\times 5 +(-2)\times 12 =1. Applying the same formula again, we get a solution of the problem: :25\times 3 -24\times 4 = -21. The other solutions are obtained by adding any multiple of , and the smallest positive solution is .
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Although (0, 2, 4) is not admissible it does produce the single set of primes, (3, 5, 7). Some inadmissible k-tuples have more than one all-prime solution. This cannot happen for a k-tuple that includes all values modulo 3, so to have this property a k-tuple must cover all values modulo a larger prime, implying that there are at least five numbers in the tuple. The shortest inadmissible tuple with more than one solution is the 5-tuple (0, 2, 8, 14, 26), which has two solutions: (3, 5, 11, 17, 29) and (5, 7, 13, 19, 31) where all congruences (mod 5) are included in both cases.
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A congruence θ of a join-semilattice S is monomial, if the θ-equivalence class of any element of S has a largest element. We say that θ is distributive, if it is a join, in the congruence lattice Con S of S, of monomial join- congruences of S. The following definition originates in Schmidt's 1968 work and was subsequently adjusted by Wehrung. Definition (weakly distributive homomorphisms). A homomorphism μ : S → T between join-semilattices S and T is weakly distributive, if for all a, b in S and all c in T such that μ(c)≤ a ∨ b, there are elements x and y of S such that c≤ x ∨ y, μ(x)≤ a, and μ(y)≤ b.
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A feature of Northern Song coinage is the sets of dui qian (). This means the simultaneous use of two or three different calligraphic styles on coins of the same period title which are otherwise identical in size of hole, width of rim, thickness, size and position of the characters and alloy. One can assume that these congruences arose from the workmanship of the different mints, but no attributions have yet been proposed. From the beginning of the dynasty, iron coins were extensively used in present-day Sichuan and Shaanxi where copper was not readily available. Between 976 and 984, a total of 100,000 strings of iron coins was produced in Fujian as well.
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Most implementations of RSA use the Chinese remainder theorem during signing of HTTPS certificates and during decryption. The Chinese remainder theorem can also be used in secret sharing, which consists of distributing a set of shares among a group of people who, all together (but no one alone), can recover a certain secret from the given set of shares. Each of the shares is represented in a congruence, and the solution of the system of congruences using the Chinese remainder theorem is the secret to be recovered. Secret sharing using the Chinese remainder theorem uses, along with the Chinese remainder theorem, special sequences of integers that guarantee the impossibility of recovering the secret from a set of shares with less than a certain cardinality.
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In mathematics, Enriques surfaces are algebraic surfaces such that the irregularity q = 0 and the canonical line bundle K is non-trivial but has trivial square. Enriques surfaces are all projective (and therefore Kähler over the complex numbers) and are elliptic surfaces of genus 0. Over fields of characteristic not 2 they are quotients of K3 surfaces by a group of order 2 acting without fixed points and their theory is similar to that of algebraic K3 surfaces. Enriques surfaces were first studied in detail by as an answer to a question discussed by about whether a surface with q=pg = 0 is necessarily rational, though some of the Reye congruences introduced earlier by are also examples of Enriques surfaces.
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On the other hand, in the Banach–Tarski paradox, the number of pieces is finite and the allowed equivalences are Euclidean congruences, which preserve the volumes. Yet, somehow, they end up doubling the volume of the ball! While this is certainly surprising, some of the pieces used in the paradoxical decomposition are non-measurable sets, so the notion of volume (more precisely, Lebesgue measure) is not defined for them, and the partitioning cannot be accomplished in a practical way. In fact, the Banach–Tarski paradox demonstrates that it is impossible to find a finitely- additive measure (or a Banach measure) defined on all subsets of an Euclidean space of three (and greater) dimensions that is invariant with respect to Euclidean motions and takes the value one on a unit cube.
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Down Beat, May 2002University of California, IrvineCenter for New Music and Audio Technology, UC Berkeley Since the untimely death of Cécile Daroux, the group remains as a duo and renamed itself Ensemble Cécile. He performed with Vinko Globokar as electronic musician in the latter's magnum opus "Laboratorium",IRCAM Ressources in concerts at UC San Diego, Witten, and Cologne. Vérin appears also as improviser or electronic musician in several CDs (Xe symphonie by Pierre Henry, Préfixes by Michaël Levinas, Congruences by Michael Jarrell, Improvisations préparées with Mirtha Pozzi and Pablo Cueco) and performed with saxophonist Daniel Kientzy, actor Jean-Louis Jacopin, flutist James Newton, saxophonist Steve Coleman, pianist Anne-Marie Fijal.France-Musique concert and broadcast of 25 April 2007 He has performed the electronic part of mixed and acousmatic pieces by Pierre HenryZvonar, Richard (2005).
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Consider the simple set of simultaneous congruences : x ≡ 3 (mod 4) : x ≡ 5 (mod 6) Now, for x ≡ 3 (mod 4) to be true, x = 3 + 4j for some integer j. Substitute this in the second equation : 3+4j ≡ 5 (mod 6) since we are looking for a solution to both equations. Subtract 3 from both sides (this is permitted in modular arithmetic) : 4j ≡ 2 (mod 6) We simplify by dividing by the greatest common divisor of 4,2 and 6. Division by 2 yields: : 2j ≡ 1 (mod 3) The Euclidean modular multiplicative inverse of 2 mod 3 is 2. After multiplying both sides with the inverse, we obtain: : j ≡ 2 × 1 (mod 3) or : j ≡ 2 (mod 3) For the above to be true: j = 2 + 3k for some integer k.
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For example, Kubota–Leopoldt used Kummer's congruences for Bernoulli numbers to construct a p-adic L-function, the p-adic Riemann zeta function ζp(s), whose values at negative odd integers are those of the Riemann zeta function at negative odd integers (up to an explicit correction factor). p-adic L-functions arising in this fashion are typically referred to as analytic p-adic L-functions. The other major source of p-adic L-functions--first discovered by Kenkichi Iwasawa--is from the arithmetic of cyclotomic fields, or more generally, certain Galois modules over towers of cyclotomic fields or even more general towers. A p-adic L-function arising in this way is typically called an arithmetic p-adic L-function as it encodes arithmetic data of the Galois module involved.
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Divisor function σ0(n) up to n = 250 Sigma function σ1(n) up to n = 250 Sum of the squares of divisors, σ2(n), up to n = 250 Sum of cubes of divisors, σ3(n) up to n = 250 In mathematics, and specifically in number theory, a divisor function is an arithmetic function related to the divisors of an integer. When referred to as the divisor function, it counts the number of divisors of an integer (including 1 and the number itself). It appears in a number of remarkable identities, including relationships on the Riemann zeta function and the Eisenstein series of modular forms. Divisor functions were studied by Ramanujan, who gave a number of important congruences and identities; these are treated separately in the article Ramanujan's sum.
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In case all three Frenet–Serret curvatures are constant, the corresponding worldlines are identical to those that follow from the Killing motions in flat spacetime. They are of particular interest since the corresponding proper frames and congruences satisfy the condition of Born rigidity, that is, the spacetime distance of two neighbouring worldlines is constant.Bel (1995), theorem 2Giulini (2008), Theorem 18 These motions correspond to "timelike helices" or "stationary worldlines", and can be classified into six principal types: two with zero torsions (uniform translation, hyperbolic motion) and four with non- zero torsions (uniform rotation, catenary, semicubical parabola, general case):Herglotz (1909), sections 3-4, who focuses on the four rotational motions in addition to hyperbolic motion.Kottler (1912), § 6; (1914a), table I & IIPetruv (1964)Synge (1967)Letaw & Pfautsch (1982)Pauri & Vallisneri (2001), Appendix ARosu (2000), section 0.2.
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In the set of all group congruences on a semigroup S, the minimal element (for the partial order defined by inclusion of sets) need not be the smallest element. In the specific case in which S is an inverse semigroup σ is the smallest congruence on S such that S/σ is a group, that is, if τ is any other congruence on S with S/τ a group, then σ is contained in τ. The congruence σ is called the minimum group congruence on S. The minimum group congruence can be used to give a characterisation of E-unitary inverse semigroups (see below). A congruence ρ on an inverse semigroup S is called idempotent pure if :a\in S, e\in E(S), a\,\rho\,e\Longrightarrow a\in E(S).
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The constructive existence proof shows that, in the case of two moduli, the solution may be obtained by the computation of the Bézout coefficients of the moduli, followed by a few multiplications, additions and reductions modulo n_1n_2 (for getting a result in the interval (0, n_1n_2-1)). As the Bézout's coefficients may be computed with the extended Euclidean algorithm, the whole computation, at most, has a quadratic time complexity of O((s_1+s_2)^2), where s_i denotes the number of digits of n_i. For more than two moduli, the method for two moduli allows the replacement of any two congruences by a single congruence modulo the product of the moduli. Iterating this process provides eventually the solution with a complexity, which is quadratic in the number of digits of the product of all moduli.
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Laman graphs arise in rigidity theory: if one places the vertices of a Laman graph in the Euclidean plane, in general position, there will in general be no simultaneous motion of all the points, other than Euclidean congruences, that preserves the lengths of all the graph edges. A graph is rigid in this sense if and only if it has a Laman subgraph that spans all of its vertices. Thus, the Laman graphs are exactly the minimally rigid graphs, and they form the bases of the two-dimensional rigidity matroids. If n points in the plane are given, then there are 2n degrees of freedom in their placement (each point has two independent coordinates), but a rigid graph has only three degrees of freedom (the position of a single one of its vertices and the rotation of the remaining graph around that vertex).
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Safe primes obeying certain congruences can be used to generate pseudo-random numbers of use in Monte Carlo simulation. Similarly, Sophie Germain primes may be used in the generation of pseudo-random numbers. The decimal expansion of 1/q will produce a stream of q − 1 pseudo-random digits, if q is the safe prime of a Sophie Germain prime p, with p congruent to 3, 9, or 11 (mod 20).. Thus "suitable" prime numbers q are 7, 23, 47, 59, 167, 179, etc. () (corresponding to p = 3, 11, 23, 29, 83, 89, etc.) (). The result is a stream of length q − 1 digits (including leading zeros). So, for example, using q = 23 generates the pseudo-random digits 0, 4, 3, 4, 7, 8, 2, 6, 0, 8, 6, 9, 5, 6, 5, 2, 1, 7, 3, 9, 1, 3.
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The observations about −3 and 5 continue to hold: −7 is a residue modulo p if and only if p is a residue modulo 7, −11 is a residue modulo p if and only if p is a residue modulo 11, 13 is a residue (mod p) if and only if p is a residue modulo 13, etc. The more complicated-looking rules for the quadratic characters of 3 and −5, which depend upon congruences modulo 12 and 20 respectively, are simply the ones for −3 and 5 working with the first supplement. :Example. For −5 to be a residue (mod p), either both 5 and −1 have to be residues (mod p) or they both have to be non-residues: i.e., p ≡ ±1 (mod 5) and p ≡ 1 (mod 4) or p ≡ ±2 (mod 5) and p ≡ 3 (mod 4).
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Sun-tzu's original formulation: In number theory, the Chinese remainder theorem states that if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime. The earliest known statement of the theorem is by the Chinese mathematician Sun-tzu in the Sun-tzu Suan- ching in the 3rd century AD. The Chinese remainder theorem is widely used for computing with large integers, as it allows replacing a computation for which one knows a bound on the size of the result by several similar computations on small integers. The Chinese remainder theorem (expressed in terms of congruences) is true over every principal ideal domain. It has been generalized to any commutative ring, with a formulation involving ideals.
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In universal algebra, an abstract algebra A is called simple if and only if it has no nontrivial congruence relations, or equivalently, if every homomorphism with domain A is either injective or constant. As congruences on rings are characterized by their ideals, this notion is a straightforward generalization of the notion from ring theory: a ring is simple in the sense that it has no nontrivial ideals if and only if it is simple in the sense of universal algebra. The same remark applies with respect to groups and normal subgroups; hence the universal notion is also a generalization of a simple group (it is a matter of convention whether a one-element algebra should be or should not be considered simple, hence only in this special case the notions might not match). A theorem by Roberto Magari in 1969 asserts that every variety contains a simple algebra.
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The proof of the negative solution for CLP shows that the problem of representing distributive semilattices by compact congruences of lattices already appears for congruence lattices of semilattices. The question whether the structure of partially ordered set would cause similar problems is answered by the following result. Theorem (Wehrung 2008). For any distributive (∨,0)-semilattice S, there are a (∧,0)-semilattice P and a map μ : P × P → S such that the following conditions hold: (1) x ≤ y implies that μ(x,y)=0, for all x, y in P. (2) μ(x,z) ≤ μ(x,y) ∨ μ(y,z), for all x, y, z in P. (3) For all x ≥ y in P and all α, β in S such that μ(x,y) ≤ α ∨ β, there are a positive integer n and elements x=z0 ≥ z1 ≥ ... ≥ z2n=y such that μ(zi,zi+1) ≤ α (resp.
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The Banach–Tarski paradox, proved by Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski in 1924, states that it is possible to partition a three-dimensional unit ball into finitely many pieces and reassemble them into two unit balls, a single ball of larger or smaller area, or any other bounded set with a non- empty interior. Although it is a mathematical theorem, it is called a paradox because it is so counter-intuitive; in the preface to the book, Jan Mycielski calls it the most surprising result in mathematics. It is closely related to measure theory and the non-existence of a measure on all subsets of three- dimensional space, invariant under all congruences of space, and to the theory of paradoxical sets in free groups and the representation of these groups by three-dimensional rotations, used in the proof of the paradox. The topic of the book is the Banach–Tarski paradox, its proof, and the many related results that have since become known.
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In the Euclidean plane, two figures that are equidecomposable with respect to the group of Euclidean motions are necessarily of the same area, and therefore, a paradoxical decomposition of a square or disk of Banach–Tarski type that uses only Euclidean congruences is impossible. A conceptual explanation of the distinction between the planar and higher-dimensional cases was given by John von Neumann: unlike the group SO(3) of rotations in three dimensions, the group E(2) of Euclidean motions of the plane is solvable, which implies the existence of a finitely-additive measure on E(2) and R2 which is invariant under translations and rotations, and rules out paradoxical decompositions of non-negligible sets. Von Neumann then posed the following question: can such a paradoxical decomposition be constructed if one allows a larger group of equivalences? It is clear that if one permits similarities, any two squares in the plane become equivalent even without further subdivision.
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Torricelli's statue in the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze In 1632, shortly after the publication of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Torricelli wrote to Galileo of reading it "with the delight ... of one who, having already practiced all of geometry most diligently ... and having studied Ptolemy and seen almost everything of Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Longomontanus, finally, forced by the many congruences, came to adhere to Copernicus, and was a Galileian in profession and sect". (The Vatican condemned Galileo in June 1633, and this was the only known occasion on which Torricelli openly declared himself to hold the Copernican view.) Aside from several letters, little is known of Torricelli's activities in the years between 1632 and 1641, when Castelli sent Torricelli's monograph of the path of projectiles to Galileo, then a prisoner in his villa at Arcetri. Although Galileo promptly invited Torricelli to visit, Torricelli did not accept until just three months before Galileo's death. The reason for this was that Torricelli's mother, Caterina Angetti died.
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In the context of Vultures selection of Sandra Oh as the best actress on television (June 2018), Matt Zoller Seitz wrote that there was "no precedent" for the "wild extremes" of the show's "comedy and thriller elements". While Mike Hale acknowledged in The New York Times that "scenes and characterizations play out differently than we're used to" and the comic style is distinctive, he also wrote – in contrast to most reviewers – of being "just as conscious of (the show's) congruences with standard examples of the genre ... as ... of the differences", citing Berlin Station, La Femme Nikita, Covert Affairs and Homeland. Scherer described the show as a feminine take on a traditionally masculine genre—"more interested in giving space to character beats and the weird chaos that can leak into the best-laid plans". Similarly, Melanie McFarland wrote for Salon that Killing Eve has been dubbed a "feminist thriller", calling it a "perfect show for the #MeToo era", saying that it "slakes one's desire to see piggish misogynists get what's coming to them" but also delves into complex trust issues among women and shows "sisterhood's might and peril (as) powerful ... but ... also complicated and devoid of guarantees".
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The subdirect representation theorem of universal algebra states that every algebra is subdirectly representable by its subdirectly irreducible quotients. An equivalent definition of "subdirect irreducible" therefore is any algebra A that is not subdirectly representable by those of its quotients not isomorphic to A. (This is not quite the same thing as "by its proper quotients" because a proper quotient of A may be isomorphic to A, for example the quotient of the semilattice (Z, min) obtained by identifying just the two elements 3 and 4.) An immediate corollary is that any variety, as a class closed under homomorphisms, subalgebras, and direct products, is determined by its subdirectly irreducible members, since every algebra A in the variety can be constructed as a subalgebra of a suitable direct product of the subdirectly irreducible quotients of A, all of which belong to the variety because A does. For this reason one often studies not the variety itself but just its subdirect irreducibles. An algebra A is subdirectly irreducible if and only if it contains two elements that are identified by every proper quotient, equivalently, if and only if its lattice Con A of congruences has a least nonidentity element.
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Paul Erdős asked whether for any arbitrarily large N there exists an incongruent covering system the minimum of whose moduli is at least N. It is easy to construct examples where the minimum of the moduli in such a system is 2, or 3 (Erdős gave an example where the moduli are in the set of the divisors of 120; a suitable cover is 0(3), 0(4), 0(5), 1(6), 1(8), 2(10), 11(12), 1(15), 14(20), 5(24), 8(30), 6(40), 58(60), 26(120) ) D. Swift gave an example where the minimum of the moduli is 4 (and the moduli are in the set of the divisors of 2880). S. L. G. Choi proved that it is possible to give an example for N = 20, and Pace P Nielsen demonstrates the existence of an example with N = 40, consisting of more than 10^{50} congruences. Erdős's question was resolved in the negative by Bob Hough. Hough used the Lovász local lemma to show that there is some maximum N<1016 which can be the minimum modulus on a covering system.
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