Number theory through inquiry
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Mathematical Association of America,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10733066 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Divide and conquer
- Prime time
- A modular world
- Fermat's Little Theorem and Euler's Theorem
- Public key cryptography
- Polynomial congruences and primitive roots
- The golden rule : quadratic reciprocity
- Pythagorean triples, sums of squares, and Fermat's Last Theorem
- Rationals close to irrationals and the Pell equation
- The search for primes
- Mathematical induction : the domino effect.