Math 662, Section 600 Information

Instructor Ahmad El-Guindy.

Class Times: MW 10:10-11:25 in BLOC 126

Office hours: TBA at 324 Milner Hall.

Phone: 845-5837.

E-mail: elguindy@math.tamu.edu

Some Useful Resources

Course Description

The main objective of the course is to understand and implement some of the essential algorithms in elementary and (time permitting) algebraic number theory. We'll also learn a bit about how to use some of current Number Theory packages, on the one hand to see how the "end product" should look like, and also as a tool some of you might use in their own research.

Prerequisites

Really minimal if you are willing to do some (aided) reading. Most of the Number Theory concept that we'll use will be defined and there are excellent accounts of them in the text (see below). For the programming, I have included links for a few texts on C and also help will be provided if needed. We'll discuss this point a bit more once we meet and I have an idea of the overall background of the class, but rest assured that accommodations would be me made so that this most likely won't be an issue.

Main Text: A Course in Computational Algebraic Number Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) by H. Cohen . Here is a link to the Amazon website where you can "search inside" the book . We will try to cover as much of the first four chapters as we can.

Grading: There will be a mixture of theoretical homeworks and some programming (in computer algebra packages). The tentative break-up of the grade will be 40% on assignments, 25% on a mid-term project/presentation, 25% on a final project/presentation, and 10% on quizzes.

Grading Scale: Grades will be assigned according to the following

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Copyright Information: Please note that all written and web materials for this course have an implied copyright. In particular, you can xerox (or download) it only for your personal use, but never for any commercial use or in mass quantities.