which examines the application of number theory to science and technology.

History

In recorded history, knowledge of numbers existed in the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India. The earliest historical find of an arithmetical nature is the Plimpton 322, dated c. 1800 BC. It is a broken clay tablet that contains a list of Pythagorean triples, that is, integers such that . The triples are too numerous and too

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