A Friendly Introduction
by Joseph H. Silverman · Joseph H. Silverman
Short chapters that lead the reader to discover patterns numerically before proving them, covering Pythagorean triples, congruences, Fermat's little theorem, quadratic reciprocity and RSA. Requires no algebra background beyond high school mathematics.
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