18.200 | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate

Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics

Lecture 11: Basic Group Theory

Definition of a group; examples of groups: addition mod n, multiplication mod n. Definitions of subgroup, definition of cosets, statement and proof of Lagrange’s theorem. Finally, we apply Lagrange’s theorem to prove Fermat’s little theorem.

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