We hope to cover most of Chapters 1-4 of Strayer. As well we hope to cover some additional topics. The basic topics include the greatest common divisor, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, arithmetic functions, multiplicative functions, congruences, the Chinese remainder theorem, quadratic residues and quadratic reciprocity. We hope to cover some material on cryptography. The final exam will cover the whole semester's work.
Documentation is needed for a make-up midterm exam.
Each of you will be given an account on the network of Sun computers run by the Mathematics Department. During the semester we will have some sessions in the Math Dept Computing Lab in 425 Little Hall.