# A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra by Lindsay N. Childs

By Lindsay N. Childs

This publication is a casual and readable advent to raised algebra on the post-calculus point. The thoughts of ring and box are brought via learn of the usual examples of the integers and polynomials. the hot examples and concept are inbuilt a well-motivated type and made suitable by means of many purposes - to cryptography, coding, integration, heritage of arithmetic, and particularly to common and computational quantity thought. The later chapters comprise expositions of Rabiin's probabilistic primality attempt, quadratic reciprocity, and the category of finite fields. Over 900 routines are came across in the course of the book.

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So a ==ao D + a2 - ... +( -Iran' 1 (mod 11), so 10' == (-1)' (mod 11). D 51 D More Properties of Congruence Fact. 7 (resp. 11, 13) divides a if 7 (resp. II, 13) divides (a2alaO)IO(a 5a4a3)10 + (a 8a7 a6 )10 - • •• • Write a in base 1000. If a is in base 10 this is very easy! Then + bm_II()()()"'-1 + ... + b l 1000 + boo Now 7· 11 . 13 = 1000 + 1. So 1000 == - 1 (mod 7), and also (mod 11) and (mod 13). Thus bm1000" + bm_ I 1()()()"'-1 + ... + b l 1000 + bo == (- lrbm+ (- Ir-Ibm_1 + ... + b2 - b l + bo (mod c), where c = 7, 11, or 13.

Decimal Expansions We can do expansions in base a also. In base 10 they are called decimal expansions. To begin with an example, to expand 1/7 into a decimal, divide 7 into 1 by the division algorithm, multiply the remainder (which is 1) by 10, divide that by 7 (with quotient 1), multiply the remainder (which is 3) by 10, divide that by 7 (with quotient 4), etc. It is what you do in long division: 14285 ... 14285 .... 5 ... 45 D Decimal Expansions The base-free procedure for taking b / c and finding its expansion in base a is the the same idea: Find b = c' q + ro where q is an integer and ro

Try the game of Euclid on successive pairs of the Fibonacci sequence. ES. d. of b and a (b > a) using Euclid's algorithm. (i) Let {an} be the Fibonacci sequence. What is N(an+I' an)? (ii) Suppose that a is an integer < an+l, where an+1 is the (n + I)st number in the Fibonacci sequence. Show that for any b > a, N(b, a) ~ N(an+ I, an). ) B. Greatest Common Divisors We observed that the last nonzero remainder in Euclid's algorithm applied to a and b is the greatest common divisor of a and b. Thus finding the greatest common divisor is an effective computational process.