Elementary Number Theory
David M. Burton(Author)
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 1. August 1996
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-07-009463-5 (ISBN)
Description
This text covers the topic of number theory as applied to a larger historical frame. In addition to livening the text, the historical remarks woven into the text bring out the point that number theory is not a dead art but a living one fed by the efforts of many practitioners. The exercises in the text range in difficulty from the purely mechanical to challenging theoretical questions. The computational exercises aim to develop basic techniques and test understanding of concepts.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
portraits
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
8800 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-009463-5 (9780070094635)
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David M. Burton
Elementary Number Theory
Book
01/1989
2nd Edition
Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S.
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Content
Some preliminary considerations; divisibility theory in the integers; primes and ther distribution; the theory of congruences; Fermat's theorem; number-theoretic functions; Euler's generalization of Fermat's theorem; primitive roots and indices; the quadratic reciprocity law; perfect numbers; the Fermat conjecture; representation of integers as sums of squares; Fibonacci numbers; continued fractions; some 20th century developments.