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Elementary Number Theory

Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series

Genres: Number theory
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Published: 31st Jul 1998
Dimensions: w 177mm h 236mm d 18mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN-10: 3540761977
ISBN-13: 9783540761976
Barcode No: 9783540761976
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Synopsis
An undergraduate-level introduction to number theory, with the emphasis on fully explained proofs and examples. Exercises, together with their solutions are integrated into the text, and the first few chapters assume only basic school algebra. Elementary ideas about groups and rings are then used to study groups of units, quadratic residues and arithmetic functions with applications to enumeration and cryptography. The final part, suitable for third-year students, uses ideas from algebra, analysis, calculus and geometry to study Dirichlet series and sums of squares. In particular, the last chapter gives a concise account of Fermat's Last Theorem, from its origin in the ancient Babylonian and Greek study of Pythagorean triples to its recent proof by Andrew Wiles.

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"?as a nice concluding chapter on Fermat? Last Theorem, with a brief discussion on the coup de grace."



G.A. Jones and J.M. Jones

Elementary Number Theory

"A welcome addition . . . a carefully and well-written book."-THE MATHEMATICAL GAZETTE

"This book would make an excellent text for an undergraduate course on number theory."

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