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Number Theory

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 470-2302/01
Abbreviation TC
Course title Number Theory
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator RNDr. Pavel Jahoda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

Divisibility on N and Z, the greatest common divisor, Euclidean algorithm,
Canonical decomposition,
The set of prime numbers — basic knowledge of the layout to the axis,
Prime-counting function, Tschebyshev inequality, the prime number theorem and Bertrand's postulate,
Asymptotic density of sets,
Congruence relation on Z,
Linear congruences,
Operation on Zn,
Euler's totient function,
Euler-Fermat's last theorem,
Miller-Rabin primality test,
RSA algorithm.

Practices
Properties of the divisibility on N and Z, Euclid's algorithm,
Link of the canonical decomposition algorithm with the greatest common divisor and least common multiple,
Presence of the prime numbers in arithmetical sequences and g-adic expansions of numbers,
Eratosthenes sieve,
Determining the densities of sets, asymptotic density of the set of prime numbers, Properties of congruence relation,
Solving of linear congruences,
Z_p field, Wilson's theorem,
The value of the Euler's function,
Examples on Fermat's primality test and Carmichael's numbers,
Examples on the Miller-Rabin primality test,
Examples on RSA algorithm

E-learning

Basic materials are available on the educator's website: www.fei.vsb.cz/470/cs/osobni-stranky/jahoda/teorieCisel/

Literature

Compulsory literature is not required.

Advised literature

APOSTOL T.M.: Introduction to Analytic Number Theory, Springer, 1976.

HARDY G.H., WRIGHT E.M.: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1954.

J.E. POMMERSHEIM, T.K. MARKS, E.L. FLAPAN, Number theory, USA: Wiley, 2010.