Elementary theory of numbers /

Since the publication of the first edition of this work, considerable progress has been made in many of the questions examined. This edition has been updated and enlarged, and the bibliography has been revised. The variety of topics covered here includes divisibility, diophantine equations, prime nu...

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Main Author: Sierpinski, Waclaw, 1882-1969
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Schinzel, Andrzej
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, NY, U.S.A. : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1988.
Series:North-Holland mathematical library ; v. 31.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Since the publication of the first edition of this work, considerable progress has been made in many of the questions examined. This edition has been updated and enlarged, and the bibliography has been revised. The variety of topics covered here includes divisibility, diophantine equations, prime numbers (especially Mersenne and Fermat primes), the basic arithmetic functions, congruences, the quadratic reciprocity law, expansion of real numbers into decimal fractions, decomposition of integers into sums of powers, some other problems of the additive theory of numbers and the theory of Gaussian integers.
Item Description:Based on the author's Teoria liczb.
Errata slip inserted.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 513 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780080960197
0080960197
1282289292
9781282289291