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Valid for year : 2003
 
TATM54 Number Theory, 4,5 ECTS credits.
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For:   C   D   IT  

  Area of Education: Natural sciences

Subject area: Mathematics

  Advancement level (A-D): C

Aim:
Insight into arithmetic concepts with a view to applications.

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.

Organisation:
Lectures.

Course contents:
Prime numbers, arithmetic modulo n, little Fermat, primitive roots, chinese remainder theorem, quadratic residues, reciprocity, sums of squares.

Course literature:
Rosen, K H: Elementary Number Theory and its Applications. 4th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Examination:
Hand-in exercises
3 p
 



Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: MAI.
Director of Studies: Arne Enqvist
Examiner: Peter Hackman
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Last updated: 10/31/2002