Elementary Number Theory with Applications.

This second edition updates the well-regarded 2001 publication with new short sections on topics like Catalan numbers and their relationship to Pascal's triangle and Mersenne numbers, Pollard rho factorization method, Hoggatt-Hensell identity. Koshy has added a new chapter on continued fraction...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Koshy, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Elsevier, 2007
Edition:2nd ed.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Elementary Number Theory with Applications; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; A Word to the Student; Chapter 1. Fundamentals; Chapter 2. Divisibility; Chapter 3. Greatest Common Divisors; Chapter 4. Congruences; Chapter 5. Congruence Applications; Chapter 6. Systems of Linear Congruences; Chapter 7. Three Classical Milestones; Chapter 8. Multiplicative Functions; Chapter 9. Cryptology; Chapter 10. Primitive Roots and Indices; Chapter 11. Quadratic Congruences; Chapter 12. Continued Fractions; Chapter 13. Miscellaneous Nonlinear Diophantine Equations; Appendix; Tables; References.
  • Solutions to Odd-Numbered ExercisesCredits; Index.