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Primes and Programming: An Introduction to Number Theory with Computing

Primes and Programming: An Introduction to Number Theory with Computing

Paperback

General Mathematics

ISBN10: 0521409888
ISBN13: 9780521409889
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 2 1993
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.86
Language: English
Peter Giblin describes, in the context of an introduction to the theory of numbers, some of the more elementary methods for factorization and primality testing; that is, methods independent of a knowledge of other areas of mathematics. Indeed everything is developed from scratch so the mathematical prerequisites are minimal. An essential feature of the book is the large number of computer programs (written in Pascal) and a wealth of computational exercises and projects, in addition to more usual theory exercises. The theoretical development includes continued fractions and quadratic residues, directed always towards the two fundamental problems of primality testing and factorization. There is time, all the same, to include a number of topics and projects of a purely recreational nature.

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