THEORY OF NUMBERS

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Prerequisite: 12 credit hours of mathematics coursework beyond calculus. Counting and recording of numbers; properties of numbers; Euclid's algorithm; prime numbers; the aliquot parts; indeterminate problems and their theory; Diophantine problems; congruences; analysis of congruences; Wilson's theorem; Euler's theorem; theory of decimal expansions; the converse of Fermat's theorem; the classical construction problems.