I have most of the work done on MS221 / TMA04 but since I haven't received the results of TMA03 yet, I wait before sending the TMA in. So, I can spend my study time freely. I am currently studying ( elementary ) Number Theory. I made some real progress during the weekend and today.
I completely understand and am thus able to prove, ( now and in the future, I am sure ) the formula for the Sigma number-theoric function. The sum of the dividers of a natural number. For example:
12 = 2^2 * 3
sigma(12)
= 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 + 12
= ( 1 + 2 + 4 ) + ( 3 + 6 + 12 )
= ( 1 + 2 + 4 ) * ( 1 + 3 )
= 7 * 4
= ( 2^3 - 1 ) / ( 2 - 1 ) * ( 3^2 - 1 ) / ( 3 - 1 )
= 28.
Furthermore, I am beginning to ger a practical understanding of Möbius inversion.
And I firmly consolidated knowlegde of and skills regarding
- Properties of integer division
- Euclidean algorithm for finding the GCD
- Linear diophantine equations
- Congruences
- etc.
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