Instructor: Dr. Iliya Bluskov

Office: 10-2030

Phone: 960-6626

E-mail: bluskoviATunbc.ca (AT=@)

Course Web Page: http://web.unbc.ca/~bluskovi/teaching/math480

Lectures: Tue, Thu 13:00-14:20, 5-171

Office Hours: MWF 14:30-15:20

Prerequisites: Math 220 or Math 224 

Course Materials: Course Notes will be available at the copy store. Homework assignments will be distributed in class. Text: Elementary Number Theory and Its Applications, by Kenneth H. Rosen (Sixth edition).

Course Content: This course is an introduction to Number Theory. Topics will be chosen among: The integers, divisibility, Euclidean algorithm, primes, unique factorization, congruences, systems of linear congruences, Euler-Fermat Theorem, multiplicative functions, quadratic residues and  reciprocity, nonlinear Diophantine equations. 

Evaluation:

Presentation:	5%
Assignments:	15%
Midterm  (Tue, Oct 18):	30%
Final Exam:	50%