Math 510 - Number-Theoretic and Discrete Structures (Spring 2011)

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Number-Theoretic and Discrete Structures

Catalog Description: (Prerequisites or Corequisite: 509) Primes, congruences, algebraic number theory, diophantine equations, and theory of algebraic equations. Applications of the theory of number systems to problem solving. Representation of phenomena via finite graphs, recursive relations, and combinatorial structures.

Spring 2011 Syllabus

Spring 2011 Course Outline

Introduction
1. Prime Numbers
2. Congruences
3. Algebraic Equations
  1. Diophantine Equations
  2. Algebraic Numbers
  3. Gaussian Integers
  4. Algebraic Number Theory
4. Graph Theory
  1. Introduction to Graphs
  2. Circulant Graphs
  3. Redei-Reichardt Theorem

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