The Whole Truth About Whole Numbers An Elementary Introduction to Number Theory /

• Main Authors: Forman, Sylvia (Author), Rash, Agnes M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Numerical analysis.; Number theory.; Number Theory.; Numerical Analysis.; Mathematics, general.

The Whole Truth About Whole Numbers is an introduction to the field of Number Theory for students in non-math and non-science majors who have studied at least two years of high school algebra. Rather than giving brief introductions to a wide variety of topics, this book provides an in-depth introduc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Conjectures, Proofs and Counterexamples
• Pythagorean Triples
• Prime Numbers
• The Division Algorithm and the Euclidean Algorithm
• Congruences
• Numerical Functions and Special Congruences
• Cryptography.