作者:Joseph H.SilvermanJoseph H.Silverman擁有哈佛大學(xué)博士學(xué)位。他目前為布朗大學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)教授,之前曾任教于麻省理工學(xué)院和波士頓大學(xué)。1998年,他獲得了美國數(shù)學(xué)會Steele獎的著述獎,獲獎著作為《The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves》和《Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves》。
圖書目錄
preface introduction 1 what is number theory? 2 pythagorean triples 3 pythagorean triples and the unit circle 4 sums of higher powers and fermat s last theorem 5 divisibility and the greatest common divisor 6 linear equations and the greatest common divisor 7 factorization and the fundamental theorem of aritrhmetic 8 congruences 9 congruences,powers,and fermat s little theorem 10 congruences,poers,and euler s formula 11 euler s phi function and the chinese remainder theorem 12 prime numbers 13 counting primes 14 mersenne primes 15 mersenne primes and perfect numbers 16 powers modulo m and successive squaring 17 computiong kth roots modulo m 18 powers,roots,and“unbreakable”codes 19 primality testing and carmichael numbers 20 euler s phi function and sums of divisros 21 powers modulo p and primitive roots 22 primitive roots and indices 23 squares modulo p 24 is-l a square modulo p?is 2? 25 quadratic reciprocity 26 which primes are sums of two squares? 27 which unmbers are sums of two squares? 28 the equation x4+y4=z4 29 square-triangular numbers revisited 30 rell s equation 31 diophantine approximation 32 diophantine approximation and pell s equation 33 number theory and imaginary numbers 34 the gaussian integers and unique factorization 35 irrational numbers and transcendental numbers 36 binomial coefficients and pascal s triangle 37 fibonacci s rabbits and linear recurrence sequences 38 oh,what a beautiful function 39 the topsy-turvy world of continued fractions 40 continued fractions,square roots,and pell s equation 41 continued fracte roots,and pell s equation 42 sums of powers 43 cubic curves and elliptic curves 44 elliptic curves with few rational points 45 points on elliptic curves modulo p 46 torsion collections modulo pand bad primes 47 defect bounds and modularity patterns 48 elliptic curves and fermat s last theorem A factorization of small composite integers B a list of primes index