2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MAT 541 - Introduction to Number Theory

College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Prime numbers, greatest common divisors, congruences. Euler’s function, Fermat’s theorem, primitive roots, indices, quadratic residues, Legendre and Jacobi symbols, and the quadratic reciprocity law.
PREREQ: ((MAT 375 OR CIS 275) AND MAT 331) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES