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Elementary Number Theory
Gareth A. Jones
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Description for Elementary Number Theory
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Series
Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540761976
SKU
V9783540761976
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Elementary Number Theory
From the reviews: BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICS BOOKS ?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 ... Read more