MTH 302 - Number Theory, 3 credit hours

Prerequisite/Corequisite: MTH 206; or MTH 161 may be taken as a prerequisite.

This course will develop basic concepts in number theory, including prime numbers and factorization, congruences, Fermat’s theorem, and Diophantine equations, with additional topics chosen from continued fractions, recurrences, and elliptic curves. We will also investigate applications to secure communications and cryptosystems.