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Elementary number theory with applications

Includes sections on topics like Catalan numbers and their relationship to Pascal's triangle and Mersenne numbers, Pollard rho factorization method, Hoggatt-Hensell identity. This title covers crucial applications of theory like computer security, ISBNs, ZIP codes, and UPC bar codes.
eBook, English, ©2007
Academic Press, Amsterdam, ©2007
dissertations
1 online resource (xxiii, 771 pages) : illustrations
9780080547091, 0080547095
647919998
Fundamentals
Divisibility
Greatest common divisors
Congruences
Congruence applications
Systems of linear congruences
Three classical milestones
Multiplicative functions
Cryptology
Primitive roots and indices
Quadratic congruences
Continued fractions
Miscellaneous nonlinear diophantine equations