Number Theory and Cryptology for Middle Level Teachers

Catalog description

Basic number theory results and the RSA cryptography algorithm. Primes, properties of congruences, divisibility tests, linear Diophantine equations, linear congruences, the Chinese Remainder Theorem, Wilson's Theorem, Fermat's Little Theorem, Euler's Theorem, and Euler's phi-function. Mathematical reasoning and integers' connections to the middle school curriculum.