Timeline for What is the history of the name "Chinese remainder theorem"?
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| Dec 23, 2019 at 23:13 | comment | added | LSpice | Links to at least one version of Dickson's volumes on archive.org, as referenced by @BrendanMcKay: v1 v2 v3. | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 1:20 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | Incidentally, the full text of Dickson's history books (3 volumes) can be read or downloaded at archive.org . | |
| Jan 17, 2010 at 0:03 | comment | added | JBorger | I got the file. Thanks! Also thanks for pointing out my confusion about the Dickson books. Now I don't have to go to the library for Wylie, but I do for the second Dickson! :) | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 10:04 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | "Chinese Remainder Theorem" does appear in Dickson's number theory book as Landau claims, but not in his history book. Google says that Wiley's book is public domain in the U.S.A., but perhaps not in Australia; I'll take the slight risk of making the pdf available until there are objections: docs.google.com/…. It is a big file which I'm not taking time to break up. The arithmetic article starts on page 440 of the pdf. | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 6:47 | comment | added | JBorger | Excellent. That helps a lot. I had no idea the name was (apparently) such a recent thing. I see the phrase "Chinese problem of remainders" as a section heading in Dickson, but I haven't been able to find "Chinese remainder theorem" there, though I'm sure how much to make of the difference. Also, for some reason, the Google books link for Wylie doesn't give me any text, maybe because I'm in Australia. I'll have to go to the library on Monday. | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:03 | history | answered | Jonas Meyer | CC BY-SA 2.5 |