Course curriculum

    1. What is Number Theory?

    2. The History of Number Theory

    3. Prime Numbers - The Building Blocks

    4. The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

    5. Introduction to Proofs

    6. Number Theory in the Real World

    1. Understanding Divisibility

    2. The Division Algorithm

    3. Prime and Composite Numbers

    4. The Sieve of Eratosthenes

    5. Prime Factorization

    6. The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (Revisited)

    7. Special Types of Prime Numbers

    8. Divisibility Rules and Tricks

    1. Introduction to GCD and LCM

    2. Computing the GCD

    3. Computing the LCM

    4. Extended Euclidean Algorithm

    1. Diophantine Equations with 1 Variable

    1. Introduction to Congruences & Modular Arithmetic

    2. Congruence Relations

    3. Fermat's Little Theorem

    4. Euler's Theorem

    5. Wilson's Theorem

    6. Applications of Modular Arithmetic

    7. Linear Congruences

    8. Systems of Congruences

    1. Euler's Phi Function (Totient function)

    2. Möbius Function and Möbius Inversion Formula

    3. Sigma Function and Sum of Divisors

    4. Abundant, Deficient, and Perfect Numbers

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  • 46 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content

Why number theory?

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