Ring of rational integers is an interpolation domain

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Statement

The ring of rational integers Z is an interpolation domain. More specifically, for any natural number n, there is a bijection between Zn+1 and the members of the ring of integer-valued polynomials of degree at most n, given as follows: the bijection sends a polynomial f of degree at most n to the (n+1)-tuple {f(0),f(1),,f(n)}.

In other words, for any (n+1)-tuple (a0,a1,,an)Zn+1, there is a unique polynomial fQ[x] that takes integers to integers, such that f(i)=ai for each i.