Abstract
Gauss introduced a remarkable notation which simplifies many problems concerning divisibility of integers. In so doing he created a new branch of number theory called the theory of congruences, the foundations of which are discussed in this chapter.
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Apostol, T.M. (1976). Congruences. In: Introduction to Analytic Number Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5579-4_6
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