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ONLINE

1st ed.

Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 2007

1 online resource (ix, 140 p.)

ISBN 9780883859834 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780883857519

aMAA textbooks

Includes index

Introduction -- Divide and conquer -- Prime time -- A modular world -- Fermat’s Little Theorem and Euler’s Theorem -- Public key cryptography -- Polynomial congruences and primitive roots -- The golden rule : quadratic reciprocity -- Pythagorean triples, sums of squares, and Fermat’s Last Theorem -- Rationals close to irrationals and the Pell equation -- The search for primes -- Mathematical induction : the domino effect.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)929120363