Introduction to number theory lecture 22. Chevalley-Warning theorem
Channel: Richard E Borcherds
Date: 21/02/2022

This lecture is part of my Berkeley math 115 course "Introduction to number theory"
For the other lectures in the course see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yHsr3EFj53L8sMbzIhhXSAOpuZ1Fov8

We discuss the Chevalley-Warning theorem, which says roughly that it is easy to find solutions toequations mod p if the number of variables is large enough. 

The textbook is "An introduction to the theory of numbers" by Niven, Zuckerman, and Montgomery (5th edition).