2023-2024 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    Feb 19, 2025  
2023-2024 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 375) AND MAT 331) OR GRADUATE STANDING IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES