2Theory of Divisibility
“A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall, immortall, intellectuall, simple and indivisible, and things naturall, mortall, sensible, componded and divisible.”
– John Dee
2.1 Introduction
Mathematics is the Universe’s natural tongue. From very beginning of our existence as a species, numbers have deeply mesmerised us. Due to Carl Friedrich Gauss “Number theory is one of the oldest branches of Mathematics which established a relationship between numbers belonging to the set of real numbers”.
The pureness of Number Theory has charmed mathematicians generation after generation — each contributing to the branch that Carl Gauss described as the ...
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