Elementary Number Theory
3rd Edition
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Hardback
375 pages
978-0-697-13330-4 (ISBN)
Description
Emphasizes the biographical and historical aspects of number theory. The book incorporates current discoveries and discusses unsolved mysteries in number theory. The problem sets range in difficulty from the mechanical to the theoretical.
Emphasizes the biographical and historical aspects of number theory. The book incorporates current discoveries and discusses unsolved mysteries in number theory. The problem sets range in difficulty from the mechanical to the theoretical.
Emphasizes the biographical and historical aspects of number theory. The book incorporates current discoveries and discusses unsolved mysteries in number theory. The problem sets range in difficulty from the mechanical to the theoretical.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Dubuque, IA
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-697-13330-4 (9780697133304)
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Content
Some preliminary considerations; divisibility theory in the integers; primes and their 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; appendices.