Discovering Number Theory

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Author(s): John E. Maxfield, Margaret W. Maxfield
Series: 1972
Publisher: W. B. Saunders
Year: 1972

Language: English
Pages: 129+ix
City: Philadelphia, London, Toronto

Title
Preface
The Mathematics of Amateurs
Contents
1. The Integers
2. Divisors
3. Primes
4. Unique Factorization
5. Congruences
6. Solving Congruences
7. Elements Prime to the Modulus
8. Primitive Roots and Indices
9. Diophantine Problems
10. Fibonacci Numbers
11. Pell's Equation
12. Magic Numbers
13. Figures with Shapes
14. Inside Integers
15. Fermat's Last Theorem
Answers to Selected Exercises
Index