| TATM54 | Number Theory, 4,5 ECTS credits. /Talteori/ |
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 28 |
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Area of Education: Science Subject area: Mathematics |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): C
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| Aim: Insight into arithmetic concepts with a view to applications. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) Basic concepts in discrete mathematics. Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Organisation: Lectures. |
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| Course contents: Prime numbers, arithmetic modulo n, little Fermat, primitive roots, chinese remainder theorem, quadratic residues, reciprocity, sums of squares. Continued fractions. |
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| Course literature: Rosen, K H: Elementary Number Theory and its Applications. 5th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2000. |
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| Hand-in exercises |
3 p |
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Course language is Swedish (under certain circumstances the course might be offered in English. Department offering the course: MAI. Director of Studies: Arne Enqvist Examiner: Peter Hackman Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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