Introductory Number Theory

Fall semester 2020
Course: MATH 3370
Course record number: 56284
Instructor: Y. Sommerhäuser
Lectures: On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a typoscript of the lecture will be distributed via e-mail.
Summaries: After reading these lecture notes, you need to type a short summary into a free response quiz of the Brightspace site of the course. Although this summary is required, there will be no mark for this summary. The summaries are due on the day where the next lecture is distributed.
Homework: Beginning Monday of the second week, a weekly exercise sheet will be be distributed via e-mail. This has to be submitted on the following Monday via e-mail.
Examinations: There will be no examinations.
Final mark: The final mark will be based entirely on the score of the exercise sheets.
Outline: The course covers primes and perfect numbers, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, congruences, the Chinese remainder theorem, and the structure of the multiplicative group of the integers modulo m. Time permitting, additional topics will be covered, for example applications of number theory to cryptography, Pythagorean triples, Fermat's last theorem, and Gaussian integers.
Office hours of Y. Sommerhäuser: Mon, Thu 11:00 am-12:00 m and by appointment
Prerequisite: MATH 2320 (Discrete Mathematics)
Brightspace site of the course
Syllabus
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Last modified: November 16, 2020