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Instructor:	Gábor Hetyei Office: Fretwell 335F, Phone: 867-2543, E-mail: ghetyei@uncc.edu Office hours: MWF 10:30-11:30 am or by appointment.
Text:	Elementary Number Theory by David M. Burton, fifth Ed., McGraw-Hill.
Prerequisite:	MATH 3163 with a grade of C or better or consent of the department.
Topics:	Induction and the Binomial Theorem (Chapter 1) Divisibility (Chapter 2) Primes and Their Distributions (Chapter 3) Congruences (Chapter 4) Fermats Little Theorem and Euler's generalization (Section 5.3, Chapter 7) Number Theoretic Functions (Chapter 6) Primitive Roots and Indices (Chapter 8) Quadratic Reciprocity (Chapter 9) The Fermat Conjecture (Chapter 11, time permitting)
Test Dates:	Test 1: Monday February 16, 02:00-02:50 pm. Test 2: Wednesday March 31, 02:00-02:50 pm Final Exam: Monday May 10 2004, 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm (Double-check in the UNCC Exam schedule !) The final exam will be cumulative, consisting of two parts. The first part will be mandatory, covering only material taught after Test 2. The second half will contain questions reviewing the material taught before Test 2. This part will be optional, if left unanswered, I will substitute the average of your test scores.
Homework:	Homework will be assigned nearly every day, and will be usually collected on Monday. I will make an effort to regularly post the homework on the webpage http://www.math.uncc.edu/~ghetyei/courses/4161/hw.html In case of discrepancy, what I said in class is "official". A random selection of the assigned exercises will be graded. Some homework exercises will be discussed in next class and not graded. Past due assignments will be counted at the rate of 90% of their value. No credit is given once the solution is explained in class.
Evaluation:	Grades will be based on: 23% for the homework, 22% for each of the tests, and 33% for the final (22% for the mandatory part, 11% for the optional part).
Class meeting:	MWF 02:00-02:50 pm in Denny 216.
Homepage:	http://www.math.uncc.edu/~ghetyei/courses/4161/index.html