Number Theoretic Preliminaries

… both Gauss and lesser mathematicians may be justified in rejoicing that there is one science [number theory] at any rate… whose very remoteness from ordinary human activities should keep it gentle and clean.

From the autobiography

A Mathematician’s Apology

of G.H. Hardy,

number theorist and pacifist,

1940

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