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MA5L016 Masters (Mathematics) · Generally offered: Autumn

Number Theory

L 3 T 0 P 0 Credits 3 Hours 3
Congruences: linear and polynomial congruences; prime numbers: counting primes, numbers of special forms, pseudo-primes and primality testing; factorization: factorization algorithms; arithmetic functions: multiplicative and additive functions, Euler's phi function, sum and number of divisors functions, the Mobius function and other important arithmetic functions, Dirichlet products; primitive roots and quadratic residues: primitive roots, index arithmetic, quadratic residues, modular square roots; Diophantine equations: linear Diophantine equations, Pythagorean triples, Fermat's last theorem, Tell's, Bachet's and Catalan's equations, sums of squares; Diophantine approximations: continued fractions, convergent, approximation theorems; quadratic fields: primes and unique factorization.
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