Fundamental Number Theory With Applications

An Update Of The Most Accessible Introductory Number Theory Text Available, Fundamental Number Theory With Applications, Second Edition Presents A Mathematically Rigorous Yet Easy-to-follow Treatment Of The Fundamentals And Applications Of The Subject. The Substantial Amount Of Reorganizing Makes This Edition Clearer And More Elementary In Its Coverage. To The Second Edition Removal Of All Advanced Material To Be Even More Accessible In Scope Fundamental Material, Including Partition Theory, Generating Functions, And Combinatorial Number Theory Expanded Coverage Of Random Number Generation, Diophantine Analysis, And Additive Number Theory More Applications To Cryptography, Primality Testing, And Factoring An Appendix On The Recently Discovered Unconditional Deterministic Polynomial-time Algorithm For Primality Testing Taking A Truly Elementary Approach To Number Theory, This Text Supplies The Essential Material For A First Course On The Subject.