Elementary number theory with applications

Koshy's (Framingham State College) textbook is designed for an undergraduate course in number theory, for students majoring in mathematics and/or computer science at the sophomore/junior level. The text covers all the traditional topics in an undergraduate number theory course, emphasizing prob...

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Main Author: Koshy, Thomas
Format: Book
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Published: San Diego, Calif. Harcourt/Academic Press 2002
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Summary:Koshy's (Framingham State College) textbook is designed for an undergraduate course in number theory, for students majoring in mathematics and/or computer science at the sophomore/junior level. The text covers all the traditional topics in an undergraduate number theory course, emphasizing problem-solving techniques, applications, pattern recognition, recursion, proof techniques, and numeric computations. Coverage includes figurate numbers and their geometric representations, Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, Fermat numbers, and the various classes of prime numbers. The text requires a strong background in college algebra