- Docente: Luca Migliorini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: MAT/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mathematics (cod. 8010)
Learning outcomes
Explaining the fundamental concpets of elementary number theory and get ready to study more advanced topics
Course contents
Examples of diofanthine equations. Residue classes mod p. Quadratic reciprocity. Primes of the form x^2+ny^2. Binary quadratic forms. Introduction to algebraic number theory, algebraic integers.P-adic numbers.
Readings/Bibliography
Serre cours d'arithmetique
Flath Introduction to number theory
Davenport Higher arithmetic
Ireland Rosen a classical introduction to modern number theory
Borevich Shafarevich Number theory
Teaching methods
Teaching at the blackboard
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Luca Migliorini