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In this chapter we shall introduce a new point of view. Diophantine problems over finite fields will be put into the context of elementary algebraic geometry. The notions of affine space, projective space, and points at infinity will be defined.
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Ireland, K., Rosen, M. (1990). Equations over Finite Fields. In: A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 84. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2103-4_10
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