# Introduction 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:
none

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| Spring | Summer | Fall
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| (Session 1) | (Session 2) |
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 |  |  |