Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets: A Computational Approach

by William Stein

This is a book about prime numbers, congruences, secret messages, and elliptic curves that you can read cover to cover. It grew out of undergr- uate courses that the author taught at Harvard, UC San Diego, and the University of Washington. The systematic study of number theory was initiated around 300B. C. when Euclid proved that there are in?nitely many prime numbers, and also cleverly deduced the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, which asserts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387855246
• ISBN13: 9780387855240
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"