Number Theory from First Principles

From divisibility and primes to the research frontier

Rajesh Ranjan Mahapatra

Ask the most innocent question about a whole number, and follow it honestly. It leads to the security of every bank transfer, to the deepest unsolved problem in mathematics, and to some of the most beautiful arguments ever found.

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