A Course in Computational Number Theory, w. CD-ROM

This text will be a modern introduction to number theory, a course taught at most colleges and universities, primarily to math and c.s. majors, and will place heavy and continuing emphasis on algorithmic aspects of the subject. The language of the algorithms used will be the popular Mathematica, and a comprehensive set of notebooks will be included on a book web site. While the emphasis will be on modern topics like factorization and primality testing techniques, there will be extensive coverage of traditional number theory. Among its features will be lots of displayed computations, and the inclusion of many computer exercises for students.

List of contents

From the contents:
Fundamentals
- Primes and Perfect Numbers
- Fermat, Euler and Pseudoprimes
- Applications
- Quadratic Residues
- Primitive Roots
- Continued Fractions
- Lucas Sequences
- Prime Imaginaries and Imaginary Primes

Product details

• Authors: David M. Bressoud, Stan Wagon
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9781930190108
• ISBN: 978-1-930190-10-8
• No. of pages: 367
• Weight: 862 g
• Illustrations: w. 3 col. plates and 25 b&w figs.
• Series: Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences; Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Arithmetic, algebra