Teacher
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TARTARONE FRANCESCA
(syllabus)
CONGRUENCES AND POLYNOMIALS. LINEAR DIOPHANTINE EQUATIONS. SYSTEMS OF LINEAR CONGRUENCES. POLYNOMIAL CONGRUENCES. POLYNOMIAL CONGRUENCES MOD p: LAGRANGES’S THEOREM. p-ADIC APPROXIMATION. THE EXISTENCE OF PRIMITIVE ROOTS MOD p. QUADRATIC CONGRUENCES. QUADRATIC RESIDUES. THE LEGENDRE SYMBOL. GAUSS’S LEMMA AND THE LAW OF QUADRATIC RECIPROCITY.THE JACOBI SYMBOL. SUMS OF TWO, THREE, FOUR SQUARES. MULTIPLICATIVE FUNCTIONS. THE MÖBIUS INVERSION FORMULA. SOME NONLINEAR DIOPHANTINE EQUATIONS. CONTINUED FRACTIONS.
(reference books)
M. Fontana, Appunti del corso TN1 (Argomenti della teoria classica dei numeri), http://www.mat.uniroma3.it/users/fontana/didattica/fontana_didattica.html#dispense D.M. Burton, Elementary Number theory, McGraw-Hill, (sesta edizione 2007) G.A. Jones e J.M. Jones, Elementary Number theory, Springer, 1998 (ristampa 2008) H. Davenport, Aritmetica superiore. Una introduzione alla teoria dei numeri, Zanichelli, (1994) G.H. Hardy e E.M. Wright, An introduction to the theory of numbers, Oxford University Press, (1979) K.H. Rosen, Elementary number theory and its applications, Addison-Wesley (2000)
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