NUMBER THEORY: AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION THROUGH DIOPHANTINE PROBLEMS: ELEMENT INTRO THROU..(V4) (Monographs In Number Theory) - Hardcover

DUVERNEY DANIEL

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814307459 ISBN 13: 9789814307451

Publisher: World Scientific Press, 2010

Synopsis

This textbook presents an elementary introduction to number theory and its different aspects: approximation of real numbers, irrationality and transcendence problems, continued fractions, diophantine equations, quadratic forms, arithmetical functions and algebraic number theory.These topics are covered in 12 chapters and more than 200 solved exercises.Clear, concise, and self-contained, this textbook may be used by undergraduate and graduate students, as well as highschool mathematics teachers. More generally, it will be suitable for all those who are interested in number theory, this fascinating branch of mathematics.

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This textbook presents an elementary introduction to number theory and its different aspects: approximation of real numbers, irrationality and transcendence problems, continued fractions, diophantine equations, quadratic forms, arithmetical functions and algebraic number theory.Clear, concise, and self-contained, the topics are covered in 12 chapters with more than 200 solved exercises. The textbook may be used by undergraduates and graduate students, as well as high school mathematics teachers. More generally, it will be suitable for all those who are interested in number theory, the fascinating branch of mathematics.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814307459
• ISBN 13: 9789814307451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348