Math 128S -- Number Theory -- Spring 2005


Course Outline
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Course Syllabus
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Brief Project Descriptions
(PS, PDF, DVI)



Detailed Project Descriptions
 
Primes in Arithmetic Progressions
(PS, PDF, DVI)
The Prime Number Theorem
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Dirichlet's class number formula
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Class numbers and Binary Quadratic Forms
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Pell's Equation and the Continued
Fraction of Sqrt(D)
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Geometry and Sums of 4 squares
(Minkowski's theorem)
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Arithmetic and Sums of 4 squares
(Quaternion Algbras)
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Algebra and Sums of 4 squares
(Local-global principle and Class numbers)
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Analysis and Sums of 4 squares
(Siegel's theorem)
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Local-Global principle for rational points
on conics and p-adic numbers
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Algebra and analysis in the p-adic numbers
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Public Key Cryptography
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Factoring and Primality testing
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(PS, PDF, DVI)
The group law on ellitic curves, and finding
rational and integral points
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Congrence and Hasse-Weil Zeta functions
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Solving x^3 + y^3 = z^3 and x^4 + y^4 = z^4
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Cubic and Biquadratic Reciprocity
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Cyclotomic numbers and Fermat's Last Theorem
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Special values of zeta(s)
(PS, PDF, DVI)
Constructibility of Regular Polygons
(PS, PDF, DVI)
...
(PS, PDF, DVI)



Homeworks
 
HW #1
(PS, PDF, DVI)
HW #2
(PS, PDF, DVI)
HW #3
(PS, PDF, DVI)
HW #4
(PS, PDF, DVI)
HW #4.5
(PS, PDF, DVI)
HW #5
(PS, PDF, DVI)
HW #5.5
(PS, PDF, DVI)



Exam
 
Review Outline
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Exam
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Solutions
(PS, PDF, DVI)