Math 350 (Elementary Number Theory) Spring 2005
Instructor:
Ching-Li Chai
Office: DRL 4N36, Ext. 8-8469.
Office Hours: MW 11:00-11:50.
Email:chai@sas.upenn.edu
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General Information
- Lectures: MWF 1--2 PM, DRL 4C2.
First meeting: Monday, January 10, 2005.
- Course description
- There will be an in-class midterm, as well as a
report/presentation at the end of the semester.
- Textbook:
Kenneth Rosen, Elementary Number Theory, Addison Wesley,
5th edition, 2005.
- Final Exam: Tuesday, May 3, 11-1, DRL A5.
- Some References:
- G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers,
5th ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979.
A classic, and a wonderful introduction to analytic number theory.
- E. Landau, Foundations of Analysis, Chelsea, 1960.
Delightful treatment of the construction of integers, rational numbers
and real numbers, from the Peano axioms.
- E. Landau, Elementary Number Theory, Chelsea, 1958.
English translation of Landau's famous Elementare Zahlentheorie.
It gives a succinct treatment of number theory, including some
advanced topics such as the class number formula for quadratic fields.
- Douglas Stinson, Cryptography,
Theory and Practice, second edition,
Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2002,
- Wade Trappe and Lawrence Washington,
Introduction to Cryptography
with Coding Theory, Prentice Hall, 2003.
- A. Weil, Number Theory: An Approach Through History :
From Hammurapi to Legendre.
Authoritative history of number theory by a master.
- Douglas Stinson, Cryptography,
Theory and Practice, second edition,
Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2002, and
- Bruce Schneier, Applied
Cryptography, second edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
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