The Enchantment of Numbers
Author:   Eric L. F. Roettger ,  Hugh C. Williams
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2025 ed.
Volume:   16
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Pages:   324
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
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Author:   Eric L. F. Roettger ,  Hugh C. Williams
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2025 ed.
Volume:   16
ISBN:  

9783031765674


ISBN 10:   3031765672
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Division, factors, primes, congruences, gcd, etc.- Representations of Integers.- Integer Powers.- The Binomial Congruence.- The Binomial Coefficients.- Public-Key Cryptography.- Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers.- Sociable Numbers.- Lucas and Lehmer Sequences.- Primality.- Prime Curios.- Linear Recurrence Sequences.- Simple Continued Fractions.- Integer Factorization.- Sieve Devices.- Simple Continued Fraction of √𝑫.- Formulas for Primes.- The Pell Equation.- Some Diophantine Equations.- Conclusion.

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Eric completed his undergraduate work in 2002 from the University of Regina receiving bachelor degrees in both mathematics and computer science. He remained in Regina for his masters work, doing research on Lucas functions under the supervision of Dr. Richard McIntosh. He went on to complete his doctorate at the University of Calgary, with a dissertation titled, A Cubic Extension of the Lucas Functions, under the supervision of Dr. Hugh Williams and Dr. Siguna Muller. Eric is an Associate Professor cross appointed between the departments of General Education and Mathematics and Computing. Eric works in the area of elementary number theory, in particular with Lucas functions and other divisibility sequences.  Dr. Hugh Williams is internationally recognized as an expert in computational number theory and its applications to cryptography.  He has authored over 150 refereed journal papers, 30 refereed conference papers and 20 books or book chapters.  After a university career of 46 years, he was appointed Professor Emeritus in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary.

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