Number Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Number theory is the branch of mathematics that is primarily concerned with the counting numbers. Of particular importance are the prime numbers, the 'building blocks' of our number system. The subject is an old one, dating back over two millennia to the ancient Greeks, and for many years has been studied for its intrinsic beauty and elegance, not least because several of its challenges are so easy to state that everyone can understand them, and yet no-one has everbeen able to resolve them.But number theory has also recently become of great practical importance - in the area of cryptography, where the security of your credit card, and indeed…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-251907-8
- EAN: 9780192519078
- Produktnummer: 34128690
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'082 KB
- Abbildungen: 35 black and white illustrations
Über den Autor
Robin Wilson received his Ph.D degree from the University of Pennsylvania for a thesis on number theory. He is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He is also a Visiting Professor at the LSE. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited over 40 books on the subject,including Lewis Carroll in Numberland (Penguin, 2008), Four Colours Suffice (Princeton University Press, 2009), Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016), and Euler's Pioneering Equation (OUP, 2018). He has been awarded the Mathematical Association of America's Lester Ford award andPólya prize for his 'outstanding expository writing', and the Stanton Medal for outreach activities in combinatorics by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. He has Erdos Number 1.
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