Elementary number theory

Author: Min Sihe, Yan Shijian
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This edition was originally published in 1957. The current reissue includes minor revisions by Comrade Yan Shijian, primarily to correct errors. The main content of the book covers divisibility, indeterminate equations, congruences, congruence relations, quadratic residues, primitive roots and indices, continued fractions, algebraic and transcendental numbers, number-theoretic functions, and the distribution of prime numbers. This book can serve as a teaching text for mathematics departments in normal universities and as a reference for mathematics departments in comprehensive universities.