This note covers the following topics: Divisibility and
Primes, Congruences, Congruences with a Prime-Power Modulus, Euler's Function
and RSA Cryptosystem, Units Modulo an Integer, Quadratic Residues and Quadratic
Forms, Sum of Powers, Fractions and Pell's Equation, Arithmetic Functions, The
Riemann Zeta Function and Dirichlet L-Function.
This lecture note is
an elementary introduction to number theory with no algebraic prerequisites.
Topics covered include primes, congruences, quadratic reciprocity, diophantine
equations, irrational numbers, continued fractions, and partitions.
This note covers the following topics: Divisibility and
Primes, Congruences, Congruences with a Prime-Power Modulus, Euler's Function
and RSA Cryptosystem, Units Modulo an Integer, Quadratic Residues and Quadratic
Forms, Sum of Powers, Fractions and Pell's Equation, Arithmetic Functions, The
Riemann Zeta Function and Dirichlet L-Function.
This
note explains the following topics:
Algebraic numbers, Finite continued fractions, Infinite continued fractions,
Periodic continued fractions, Lagrange and Pell, Euler’s totient function,
Quadratic residues and non-residues, Sums of squares and Quadratic forms.