Description
MTH 462 Topics in Number Theory Three credit hours
Prime Numbers and prime factorization, Greatest Common Divisors, The Euclidean Algorithm, The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Linear Diophantine Equations, Introduction to Congruences, Divisibility Tests, Wilson?s Theorem and Fermat?s Little Theorem, Euler?s Theorem, The Euler Phi-Function, Applications to cryptology. Prerequisite: MTH 335. Three lectures per week.