"Indian Edition" on front cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New to this edition -- Preliminaries -- Divisibility theory in the integers -- Primes and their distribution -- The theory of congruences -- Fermat's theorem -- Number-theoretic functions -- Euler's generalization of Fermat's theorem -- Primitive roots and indices -- The quadratic reciprocity law -- Introduction to cryptography -- Numbers of special form -- Certain nonlinear Diophantine equations -- Representations of integers as sums of squares -- Fibonacci numbers -- Continued fractions -- Some modern developments -- Miscellaneous problems -- Appendixes.

This text provides a simple account of classical number theory, as well as some of the historical background in which the subject evolved. It is intended for use in a one-semester, undergraduate number theory course.

College of Education Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Mathematics

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