Alan Baker

A Concise Introduction to the Theory of Numbers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Professor Baker describes the rudiments of number theory in a concise, simple and direct manner. Though most of the text is classical in content, he includes many guides to further study which will stimulate the reader to delve into the great wealth of literature devoted to the subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9780521286541
• ISBN-10: 0521286549
• Artikelnr.: 21764184

Autorenporträt

Alan K. Baker was born in Birmingham, UK in 1964. After graduating from the University of Reading in 1991, he endured a series of increasingly unpleasant jobs, culminating in a nine-month stint as a meat-packer in a Sheffield sausage factory, which served to increase his fascination with the macabre and outlandish. Since 1997, he has published a number of books on the paranormal and popular history, which have been translated into seven languages.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Divisibility
2. Arithmetical functions
3. Congruences
4. Quadratic residues
5. Quadratic forms
6. Diophantine approximation
7. Quadratic fields
8. Diophantine equations.