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Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets A Computational Approach /

The systematic study of number theory was initiated around 300B.C. when Euclid proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. At the same time, he also cleverly deduced the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, which asserts that every positive integer factors uniquely as a product of primes. Ove...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, William (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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