A Pathway Into Number Theory

by R.P. Burn

Book Overview

Number theory is concerned with the properties of the natural numbers: 1,2,3, .... During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, number theory became established through the work of Fermat, Euler and Gauss. With the hand calculators and computers of today, the results of extensive numerical work are instantly available and mathematicians may traverse the road leading to their discoveries with comparative ease. Now in its second edition, this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521575400
• ISBN13: 9780521575409
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"