Failure of Unique Factorization and Gauss Composition

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• Michael Zhao (University of Cambridge, DPMMS)
• Tuesday 14 November 2017, 18:45-19:30
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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We review the idea of unique factorization into prime numbers in the integers, see how it fails once you toss in extra numbers into the integers, and one way (known as Gauss composition) number theorists can examine failure of unique factorization in certain cases. I’ll end the talk with a description of how my thesis is an analogue of Gauss composition.

This talk is part of the Churchill Scholars Overly Awesome Research Symposium (ChuSOARS) series.

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