SMED 732B Topics in Number Theory
SMED 732. TOPICS IN NUMBER THEORY (Credit, 3 hours). This course will briefly review fundamental concepts from Number Theory, with emphasis on intuition, proof, history, applications to modern algebra, discrete mathematics, coding, and the role of number theory in the school curriculum. Topics will include divisibility, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, the Euclidean algorithm, congruence, number theoretic functions, Diophantine equations, systems of linear congruences, topics in algebraic number theory, induction and well-ordering.
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