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Gareth A. Jones - Elementary Number Theory - 9783540761976 - V9783540761976
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Elementary Number Theory

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Description for Elementary Number Theory Paperback. .
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.

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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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 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. -MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS

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