Number Theory 0 - Prelim
Number Theory 0 - Prelim
Number Theory 0 - Prelim
Chapter 0: Preliminary
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GAUSS
MATHEMATICS IS THE QUEEN OF SCIENCES AND NUMBER THEORY IS THE QUEEN OF MATHEMATICS
Theres a popular story that Gauss , mathematician extraordinaire, had a lazy teacher. The so-called educator wanted to keep the kids busy so he could take a nap; he asked the class to add the numbers 1 to 100. Gauss approached with his answer: 5050. So soon? The teacher suspected a cheat, but no. Manual addition was for suckers, and Gauss found a formula to sidestep the problem:
Total=101100/2=5050
Total=67/2=21
Exercise
1+2+.+n ?
Sequence
I am CTS student, therefore I am Kulliyyah of Science student. I am Kulliyyah of Science student, therefore I am CTS student.
Working
P(1) is true P(N) is true then P(N+1) also true
Prove by Contradiction
The basic idea is to assume that the statement we want to prove is false, and then show that this assumption leads to nonsense. We are then led to conclude that we were wrong to assume the statement was false, so the statement must be true
Absurd!
- A rational number is not rational number. - The smallest element is not the smallest. - 1 is greater than 1. - An even number is odd. - A male is female. - divisible by 3 is not divisible by 3. - there is only n members, but we found 1 extra. - N has a non zero remainder when it is divided by 5, but found that N has zero remainder.
Example
There is no greatest even integer.
BINOMIAL EXPANSION