Abstract
Carl Friedrich Gauss begins the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801):
if a number a divides the difference of the numbers b and c, b and c are said to be congruent relative to a; if not, b and c are noncongruent. The number a is called the modulus. If the numbers b and c are congruent, each of them is called a residue of the other.
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Anglin, W.S. (1995). Congruence. In: The Queen of Mathematics. Kluwer Texts in the Mathematical Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0285-8_3
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