MATH5645 Number Theory

MATH5645 is a Honours and Postgraduate coursework Mathematics course. See the course overview below.

Units of credit: 6

Prerequisites: 

Excluded: MATH3740

Cycle of offering: Course not offered every year.

Graduate attributes: The course will enhance your research, inquiry and analytical thinking abilities.

More information: The recent course handout (pdf) contains information about course objectives, assessment, course materials and the syllabus. 

The Online Handbook entry contains up-to-date timetabling information.

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Course Overview

Topics from: elementary number theory, prime numbers, number theoretic functions, Dirichlet series, prime number theorem, continued fractions, diophantine approximation, quadratic reciprocity, algebraic number theory, class number theorem.