E36 -- Solutio problematis arithmetici de inveniendo numero, qui per datos numeros divisus relinquat data residua
(Solution of problems of arithmetic of finding numbers which, when divided by given numbers, leave given remainders)
Summary:
Euler proves the Chinese Remainder Theorem.
Publication:
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Originally published in Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 7, 1740, pp. 46-66
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 2, pp. 18 - 32
- Reprinted in Comment. acad. sc. Petrop. 7, ed. nova, Bononiae 1748, pp. 43-60 [E36a]
- Reprinted in Commentat. arithm. 1, 1849, pp. 11-20 [E36b]
- Republished in L. Euler, Cours d’arithmétique raisonnée, Paris 1865, pp. 437-459 [E36Aa]
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