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A Geometric Proof of Fermat’s Little Theorem
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A Geometric Proof of Fermat’s Little Theorem

Thomas Beatty, Marc Barry and Andrew Orsini
Advances in pure mathematics, Vol.8(1), pp.41-44
2018

Abstract

We present an intuitively satisfying geometric proof of Fermat's result for positive integers that for prime moduli p, provided p does not divide a. This is known as Fermat’s Little Theorem. The proof is novel in using the idea of colorings applied to regular polygons to establish a number-theoretic result. A lemma traditionally, if ambiguously, attributed to Burnside provides a critical enumeration step.
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