Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe law of quadratic reciprocity is an important result in number theory. The purpose of this thesis is to present several proofs as well as applications of the law of quadratic reciprocity. I will present three proofs of the quadratic reciprocity. We begin with a proof that depends on Gauss's lemma and Eisenstein's lemma. We then describe another proof due to Eisentein using the $n$th roots of unity. Then we provide a modern proof published in 1991 by Rousseau. In the second part of the thesis, we present two applications of quadratic reciprocity. These include special cases of Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions and Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.S. in Mathematics
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Mathematics
- Year dc:date.available
- 2019
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Almuteri, Awatef Noweafa
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Thai Hoang Le
- Erwin Mina Diaz
- Rizwanur Khan
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1540
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2539