COURSE: Introduction to Number Theory, M328K #52870, Spring 2020
------ TTh 11:00 - 12:30, RLM 5.120, class attendance is mandatory
PREREQUISITES: M341 or M325K, with a grade of at least C-
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TEXT: Kenneth H. Rosen, "Elementary Number Theory", 6th ed. recommended
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SYLLABUS: induction, divisibility, prime numbers, fundamental theorem of
-------- arithmetic; congruences, applications, Chinese remainder theorem,
Euler theorem; multiplicative functions, Möbius inversion, cryptology;
primitive roots, index arithmetic; quadratic residues; cont. fractions
INSTRUCTOR: Hans Koch,
---------- Office Hours Mon Fri 2:30 - 4:00 pm, RLM 12.152 | 93 -100 A
| 89 - 92 A-
GRADING: Letter grades (A,A-,B+,...,D-,F) will be given for | 85 - 88 B+
------- each exam, but number grades (100,99,..,2,1,0) will | 81 - 84 B
be kept for averaging. The course grade is obtained | 77 - 80 B-
by averaging the number grades of the 3 exams and of | 73 - 76 C+
the homework. | 69 - 72 C
| 65 - 68 C-
HOMEWORK will be assigned on Tuesdays and collected one | 61 - 64 D+
-------- week later in class. Each assignment is graded on a | 57 - 60 D
scale from 0 to 20. Half the sum of the ten highest | 53 - 56 D-
HW scores contributes 10% to the class grade. | 0 - 52 F
EXAMS: Two 75 minute in-class Exams (1 and 2) | Exam 1 (Th Feb 20) 25%
----- and a 180 minute Final (Exam 3, 9am-12pm) | Exam 2 (Th Apr 2) 25%
The exams are mostly on new material. | Exam 3 (We May 13) 40%
Books, calculators, or notes are not | Homework 10%
allowed. No make-up exams, except in case of documented emergencies.
DROP deadline: April 6, Monday. Last day an undergraduate student may,
---- with the dean's approval, withdraw from the University or drop a class
except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic reasons.
SSD: Students with disabilities may request appropriate academic
accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement,
http://diversity.utexas.edu/disability/
MORE INFO: See the class web page http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/M328K/
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