TY - BOOK ID - 138775416 TI - Elementary number theory with applications PY - 2007 SN - 1282540254 9786612540257 0080547095 9780080547091 9780123724878 0123724872 PB - Amsterdam Boston Academic Press DB - UniCat KW - Number theory. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138775416 AB - This second edition updates the well-regarded 2001 publication with new short sections on topics like Catalan numbers and their relationship to Pascal's triangle and Mersenne numbers, Pollard rho factorization method, Hoggatt-Hensell identity. Koshy has added a new chapter on continued fractions. The unique features of the first edition like news of recent discoveries, biographical sketches of mathematicians, and applications--like the use of congruence in scheduling of a round-robin tournament--are being refreshed with current information. More challenging exercises are included both in the t ER -