"additive number theory" meaning in English

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          "text": "Abstractly, additive number theory includes the study of abelian groups and commutative semigroups with an addition operation.",
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          "text": "Two principal objects of study in additive number theory are the sumset A#x2B;B#x3D;#x5C;#x7B;a#x2B;b#x3A;a#x5C;inA,b#x5C;inB#x5C;#x7D; of two subsets A and B of elements from an abelian group G, and the h-fold sumset of A, hA#x3D;#x5C;underset#x7B;h#x7D;#x7B;#x5C;underbrace#x7B;A#x2B;#x5C;cdots#x2B;A,.}}",
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          "text": "1966 [Macmillan], W. E. Deskins, Abstract Algebra, 1995, Dover, page 152,\nOne of the famous theorems of additive number theory states that each positive integer is expressible in at least one way as the sum of the squares of not more than four positive integers."
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