Early Proofs of Fermat‟s Little Theorem and Applications

R.P.Sah; U.N.Roy; A.K.Sah; S.K.Sourabh

doi:https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V64P512

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Volume 64 | Number 2 | Year 2018 | Article Id. IJMTT-V64P512 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V64P512

Early Proofs of Fermat‟s Little Theorem and Applications

R.P.Sah, U.N.Roy, A.K.Sah, S.K.Sourabh

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R.P.Sah, U.N.Roy, A.K.Sah, S.K.Sourabh, "Early Proofs of Fermat‟s Little Theorem and Applications," International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT), vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 74-79, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V64P512

Abstract

In this paper we study some of the early proofs of Fermat’s Little Theorem. Many of the original sources to the proofs of these theorems are obscure. The sequence of the proofs appears chronologically, in order to display how the proofs involved throughout the 17th -21th centuries.

Keywords

Fermat, Little,terminology, emphasize, sketchy

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