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MATH208 Number Theory

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level MATH or STAT units
Teaching Organisation 4 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent.

The unit covers a selection of topics from: divisibility, primes, theory of congruences, Diophantine equations, Fermats theorem, the work of Pythagoras, Eulers theorem, continued fractions, conjectures: solved and unresolved. Applications of number theory will motivate the study of these topics.

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