Computational number theory

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Short description: Study of algorithms for performing number theoretic computations

In mathematics and computer science, computational number theory, also known as algorithmic number theory, is the study of computational methods for investigating and solving problems in number theory and arithmetic geometry, including algorithms for primality testing and integer factorization, finding solutions to diophantine equations, and explicit methods in arithmetic geometry.[1] Computational number theory has applications to cryptography, including RSA, elliptic curve cryptography and post-quantum cryptography, and is used to investigate conjectures and open problems in number theory, including the Riemann hypothesis, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, the ABC conjecture, the modularity conjecture, the Sato-Tate conjecture, and explicit aspects of the Langlands program.[1][2][3]

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Further reading

  • Hans Riesel (1994). Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization. Progress in Mathematics. 126 (second ed.). Birkhäuser. ISBN 0-8176-3743-5. 

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Computational Number Theory", The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Princeton University Press), 2009, https://math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/PDF/pcm0049.pdf 
  2. Algorithmic Number Theory, Volume 1: Efficient Algorithms. MIT Press. 1996. ISBN 0-262-02405-5. 
  3. A Course In Computational Algebraic Number Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. 138. Springer-Verlag. 1993. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02945-9. ISBN 0-387-55640-0. 

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