Lecturer: Joshua Maglione (joshua.maglione at universityofgalway.ie).
Lectures:
Tutorials: Start on the 14th of September – more information on Canvas.
Assessment: Details of this are on Canvas.
Additional Materials:
These exercise sheets are not marked. You do not need to turn them in. They will be covered in the tutorials.
Lecture 01 : A brief (and unfinished) introduction to modular arithmetic
Lecture 02 : Divisibility and the Euclidean algorithm
Lecture 03 : We solve linear Diophantine equations in two variables using Bézout’s theorem
Lecture 04 : More on linear Diophantine equations in two variables and starting modular arithmetic
Extra: Back-substition : Two examples and two exercises around back-substitution
Lecture 05 : We show that (integer) congruence is an equivalence relation