9780486682525: Number Theory

Synopsis

Rédigé par un mathématicien et enseignant de renom, ce manuel de premier cycle utilise une approche combinatoire pour s'adapter à la fois aux étudiants en mathématiques et aux étudiants en arts libéraux. En plus de couvrir les bases de la théorie des nombres, il offre une introduction exceptionnelle aux partitions, ainsi que des chapitres sur la multiplicité-divisibilité, les congruences quadratiques, l'additivité, etc.

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À propos de l?auteur

The Holy Grail of Number Theory
George E. Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, author of the well-established text Number Theory (first published by Saunders in 1971 and reprinted by Dover in 1994), has led an active career discovering fascinating phenomena in his chosen field -- number theory. Perhaps his greatest discovery, however, was not solely one in the intellectual realm but in the physical world as well.

In 1975, on a visit to Trinity College in Cambridge to study the papers of the late mathematician George N. Watson, Andrews found what turned out to be one of the actual Holy Grails of number theory, the document that became known as the "Lost Notebook" of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It happened that the previously unknown notebook thus discovered included an immense amount of Ramanujan's original work bearing on one of Andrews' main mathematical preoccupations -- mock theta functions. Collaborating with colleague Bruce C. Berndt of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Andrews has since published the first two of a planned three-volume sequence based on Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, and will see the project completed with the appearance of the third volume in the next few years.

In the Author's Own Words:
"It seems to me that there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally surprise me. I do not think of mathematics as invented but rather discovered." -- George E. Andrews

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9780721612553: Number Theory

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ISBN 10 :  0721612555 ISBN 13 :  9780721612553
Editeur : Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd, 1971
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