Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems
eBook - ePub

Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems

A Trialogue with Papa Paulo

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems

A Trialogue with Papa Paulo

About this book

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Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems is written as a trialogue, with two persons who are interested in prime numbers asking the author, Papa Paulo, intelligent questions. Starting at a very elementary level, the book advances steadily, covering all important topics of the theory of prime numbers, up to the most famous problems. The humorous conversations and the inclusion of a back-story add to the uniqueness of the book. Concepts and results are also explained with great care, making the book accessible to a wide audience.

-->0 Readership: College students, high school teachers and beginners interested in number theory and important facts about prime numbers.
Prime Numbers, Largest Prime Number, Fermat Numbers, Congruences, Proofs of Theorems0

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments? Acknowledgments!
  7. 1. What are Prime Numbers?
  8. 2. Division is Harder than Multiplication
  9. 3. Another Paulo! Is a Dialogue of Three Possible?
  10. 4. How Natural Numbers are Made Out of Primes
  11. 5. Tell Me: Which is the Largest Prime?
  12. 6. Trying Hard to Find Primes
  13. 7. A Formula, A Formula, Please
  14. 8. Paulo Came with a Lasso
  15. 9. Beautiful Old Elementary Arithmetic
  16. 10. The Old Man Still Knows
  17. 11. Can You Tell Me All About Congruences?
  18. 12. Homework Checked
  19. 13. Testing for Primality and Factorization
  20. 14. Fermat Numbers are Friendly. Are They Primes?
  21. 15. This World is Perfect
  22. 16. Unfriendly Numbers from a Friend of Fermat’s
  23. 17. Paying My Debt
  24. 18. Money and Primes
  25. 19. Secret Messages
  26. 20. New Numbers and Functions
  27. 21. Princeps Gauss
  28. 22. Gathering Forces
  29. 23. The After “Math” of Gauss
  30. 24. Primes After Dinner: Bad Dreams?
  31. 25. Primes in Arithmetic Progression
  32. 26. Selling Primes
  33. 27. The Great Prime Mysteries
  34. 28. Mysteries in Sequences: More But Not All
  35. 29. The End and the Beginning
  36. Name Index
  37. Subject Index