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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Bombay

    The fees for the A Basic Course in Number Theory course is :

    Fees typeAmount
    Exam feesRs. 1,000

     


    The Syllabus

    • Factorization of numbers, primes

    • GCD, Euclid’s algorithm, properties of primes

    • Arithmetical functions, examples

    • Dirichlet product, Möbius inversion

    • Congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, primitive roots

    • Quadratic reciprocity law, applications

    • Binary quadratic forms, Gauss’ theory of reduced forms

    • Sums of two squares, sums of four squares

    • Diophantine approximation, theorems of Dirichlet and Liouville

    • Continued fractions, quadratic irrationals

    • Quadratic extensions of rationals, units in the rings of integers

    • Diophantine equations with special reference to Brahmagupta-Pell equation

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