Lead Faculty: Dr. Igor Y. Subbotin
Prerequisite
MTH 215 or MTH 216A/B or MTH 301 or placement evaluation
Course Description
An examination of fundamental concepts of numbers, including divisibility, congruencies, the distribution of primes, Pythagorean triples, the Euclidean Algorithm, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Diophantine equations, Goldbach's conjecture and other unsolved problems of number theory. Emphasizes active student involvement in posing and testing conjectures, formulating counter examples, logical arguments and proofs.