When Three Subjects of Mathematics Meet Each Other – Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Science Department of Mathematics

M. R. Pournaki, Sharif University of Technology. Date: 8th of March, 2024, Friday, Time: 13.00 – 14.00. Place: Dokuz Eylül Univ., Tınaztepe Campus, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Class B255.

Abstract: Fermat’s little theorem states that if $p$ is a prime number, then $a^p \equiv a$ (mod $p$ ) holds true for any integer $a$ . One may ask what happens when $p$ is not a prime. The answer to this question seems little known to mathematicians, even to number theorists (as Dickson said in his “History of the Theory of Numbers”). In this talk, we discuss the missing result which is essentially due to Gauss and its generalizations.