Elementary number theory
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Elementary number theory
（International series in pure and applied mathematics）（McGraw-Hill higher education）（McGraw-Hill international editions）
McGraw-Hill, c2002
5th ed., international ed
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Bibliography: p. 364-366
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text provides a simple account of classical number theory, as well as some of the historical background in which the subject evolved. It is intended for use in a one-semester, undergraduate number theory course taken primarily by mathematics majors and students preparing to be secondary school teachers. Although the text was written with this readership in mind, very few formal prerequisites are required. Much of the text can be read by students with a sound background in high school mathematics.
Table of Contents
1. Some Preliminary Considerations. 2. Divisibility Theory in the Integers. 3. Primes and Their Distribution. 4. The Theory of Congruences. 5. Fermat's Theorem. 6. Number-Theoretic Functions. 7. Euler's Generalization of Fermat's Theorem. 8. Primitive Roots and Indices. 9. The Quadratic Reciprocity Law. 10. Perfect Numbers. 11. The Fermat Conjecture. 12. Representation of Integers as Sums of Squares. 13. Fibonacci Numbers. 14. Continued Fractions. 15. Some Twentieth-Century Developments.
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