September 05, 2007

THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN QUADRATIC RECIPROCITY

RICK LUTTMANN, MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT, SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

We will discuss the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, which Gauss famously described as the Jewel in the Crown, Number Theory, on the head of the Queen of the Sciences, Mathematics. The Law arises from the question: Which possible remainder can the perfect squares have when divided by any number m?

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