# Intro To Number Theory

## MATH-4020

Topics include the history of number representation systems, divisibility, greatest common divisor and prime factorization, linear Diophantine equations, congruences, and condition congruences. Additional topics may be chosen from cryptology, the perpetual calendar, hashing functions, computer operations and complexity, continued fractions, multiplicative functions, primitive roots, pseudo-random numbers, nonlinear Diophantine equations, Fermat’s last theorem, algebraic numbers, and approximation of numbers by rationals.

4 credits
Prereqs:
MATH-1020 Calculus II

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2026 |  |  |

2025

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Daniel Franklin Stevenson

Seats Taken: 41/40

2024 |  |  |

2023

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 44/60

2022 |  |  |

2021

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 78/90

2020 |  |  |

2019

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 71/80

2018 |  |  |

2017

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Gina Irene Kucinski

Seats Taken: 32/30

2016 |  |  |

2015

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 40/45

2014 |  |  |

2013

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 47/45

2012 |  |  |

2011

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 36/42

2010 |  |  |

2009

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 39/40

2008 |  |  |

2007

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 22/30

2006 |  |  |

2005

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 36/45

2004 |  |  |

2003

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 40/45

2002 |  |  |

2001

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Jason Thomas Blackford

Seats Taken: 29/40

2000 |  |  |

1999

Intro To Number Theory (4c)

- Bruce Piper

Seats Taken: 27/35

1998 |  |  |