History And Theory Of Numbers Vol III Quadratic And Higher Forms

The last volume of Dickson's History is the most modern, covering quadratic and higher forms. The treatment here is more general than in Volume II, which , in a sense, is more concerned with special cases. Indeed, this volume chiefly presents methods of attacking whole classes of problems. Again, Dickson is exhaustive with references and citations. Covers the related topics of divisibility and primality. This book describes the development of our understanding of perfect numbers. It also covers standard topics, such as Fermat's theorems, primitive roots, counting divisors, the Mobius function, and prime numbers themselves.