This paper is an elementary introduction to the theory of moduli spaces of curves and maps. As an application to enumerative geometry, we show how to count the number of bitangent lines to a projective plane curve of degree d by doing intersection theory

We give an overview of zero-sum theory in finite abelian groups, a subfield of additive group theory and combinatorial number theory. In doing so we concentrate on the algebraic part of the theory and on the development since the appearance of the survey article by Y. Caro in 1996.