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Gábor Hetyei
Office: Fretwell 335F, Phone: 867-2543, E-mail: ghetyei@uncc.edu
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Office hours:
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Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00-1:50 pm and Fridays 10:00-11:00 am or by appointment.
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| Text: |
Elementary Number Theory by David M. Burton, fourth Ed.,
McGraw-Hill.
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| Prerequisite: |
MATH 3163 with a grade of C or better or consent of the department.
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Topics:
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- Induction and the Binomial Theorem (Chapter 1)
- Divisibility (Chapter 2)
- Primes and Their Distributions (Chapter 3)
- Congruences (Chapter 4)
- Fermats Little Theorem and Euler's generalization (Section 5.3,
Chapter 7)
- Number Theoretic Functions (Chapter 6)
- Primitive Roots and Indices (Chapter 8)
- Quadratic Reciprocity (Chapter 9)
- The Fermat Conjecture (Chapter 11, time permitting)
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Test Dates:
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Test 1
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Wednesday February 13, 12:00-12:50 pm
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Test 2
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Wednesday March 27, 12:00-12:50 pm
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| Final Exam |
Monday May 6, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
(Double-check in the UNCC Exam schedule !) |
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| Homework: |
Homework will be handed in nearly every week, and will be usually due on
Monday.
I will make an effort to regularly post the homework on the webpage
http://www.math.uncc.edu/~ghetyei/courses/4161/hw.html
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In case of discrepancy, what I said in class is "official".
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| Evaluation: |
Grades will be based on: 25% for the homework, 21
% for each of the tests, and 33 % for the final.
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Class meeting: |
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 12:00-12:50 am in Denny 217.
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Homepage: |
http://www.math.uncc.edu/~ghetyei/courses/4161/index.html
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