Elementary number theory : primes, congruences, and secrets : a computational approach

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Elementary number theory : primes, congruences, and secrets : a computational approach

William Stein

(Undergraduate texts in mathematics)

Springer, c2009

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注記

Bibliography: p. [155]-159

Includes index

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内容説明

This is a book about prime numbers, congruences, secret messages, and elliptic curves that you can read cover to cover. It grew out of undergr- uate courses that the author taught at Harvard, UC San Diego, and the University of Washington. The systematic study of number theory was initiated around 300B. C. when Euclid proved that there are in?nitely many prime numbers, and also cleverly deduced the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, which asserts that every positive integer factors uniquely as a product of primes. Over a thousand years later (around 972A. D. ) Arab mathematicians formulated the congruent number problem that asks for a way to decide whether or not a given positive integer n is the area of a right triangle, all three of whose sides are rational numbers. Then another thousand years later (in 1976), Di?e and Hellman introduced the ?rst ever public-key cryptosystem, which enabled two people to communicate secretely over a public communications channel with no predetermined secret; this invention and the ones that followed it revolutionized the world of digital communication. In the 1980s and 1990s, elliptic curves revolutionized number theory, providing striking new insights into the congruent number problem, primality testing, publ- key cryptography, attacks on public-key systems, and playing a central role in Andrew Wiles' resolution of Fermat's Last Theorem.

目次

Prime Numbers.- The Ring of Integers Modulo n.- Public-key Cryptography.- Quadratic Reciprocity.- Continued Fractions.- Elliptic Curves.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA88665522
  • ISBN
    • 9780387855240
  • LCCN
    2008939895
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York, N.Y.
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 166 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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