Carl Friedrich Gauss
(1777-1855)
           
Number Theory
at Dalhousie University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
           
Pierre de Fermat
(1601-1665)
Faculty members working in number theory:
Karl Dilcher
Keith Johnson
Jörg Richstein (2000 - 2002)
Classes offered:
MATH-3070: Theory of Numbers
MATH-4070/5070: Topics in Number Theory -- Computational Number Theory
MATH/CSCI-4116: Cryptography
General number theory websites:
The Number Theory Web
; what's new in the world of number theory.
Math Archives: Number Theory
. A miscellany of interesting and useful links.
More specific number theory websites:
The Prime Pages
. Prime number research, records, and resources.
Bernoulli Numbers Bibliography
. Maintained and co-edited by K. Dilcher. More than 2600 entries.
Fermat number factoring status
.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
: An online tutorial.
Other recommended websites:
The
"MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive"
. Short biographies of thousands of mathematicians, and more stuff.
Departmental Library
website. Many links to interesting and important resources.
"MathWorld"
, a huge on-line encyclopedia, with graphs, animations, etc.
The Canadian Mathematical Society's
Student Centre
.
Some recommended books
Last update: August 19, 2002
Created and maintained by
Karl Dilcher
(
dilcher@mathstat.dal.ca
).