Quote of the course:
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be
development
of an easy way to factor large
prime numbers."
Bill Gates, The Road Ahead,
Viking, Penguin (1995)
Recommended books: J. LeVeque, Fundamentals of Number Theory
and zillions of other books in Elementary Number Theory including a nice book from the Open University (M. Burton, Elementary Number theory, also in Hebrew: library number 11-01).
Notes from my 2020 course (requiers @live.biu.ac.il account).
Online notes:
Notes by W. Stein (approach based on computations with PARI, very extensive and computationally oriented)
From History of Number Theory:
Fermat , Euler , Legendre , Lagrange , Gauss , Jacobi , Chebyshev , Riemann .
Home assignments :
Schedule:
88-576/89-256 (Spring semester 2021): Tue, 12-15.
Solution
of
the 2014a exam.
Solution
of
the 2013a exam.
MATERIALS FROM PAST YEARS:
Solution
of
the 2012a exam.
