Symmetries are captured by mathematical groups. And just as you can combine kinds symmetry to form new symmetries, you can…
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Number of forms of a finite field
The number of elements in a finite field must be a prime power, and for every prime power there is…
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It occurred to me recently that I rarely hear about finite rings. I did a Google Ngram search to make…
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A week ago I wrote about using some Python code to play with the sum-product theorem of Erdős and Szemerédi…
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