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Number Theory provided by Brilliant is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Brilliant. The course is taught in Englishand is Paid Course. Visit the course page at Brilliant for detailed price information.

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4 hours worth of material
Self paced
Overview

  • This course starts at the very beginning — covering all of the essential tools and concepts in number theory, and then applying them to computational art, cryptography (code-breaking), challenging logic puzzles, understanding infinity, and more!

Syllabus

    • Introduction: In many of these warmups, if you can figure out the trick, you'll finish the problem in seconds!
      • Last Digits: Use shortcuts to find just the last digit of each answer – there's no need to calculate the rest!
      • Secret Messages: Look for patterns, and when you think you've found one, use it to decode the message!
      • Rainbow Cycles: Investigate the coloring rules that apply when you do math on a rainbow-striped number grid.
    • Factorization: Every integer greater than 1 has a unique name that can be written down in primes.
      • Divisibility Shortcuts (I): How much can you learn about a number if you can only see its last digit?
      • Divisibility Shortcuts (II): Review the divisibility shortcuts that apply when you're dividing by a power of 2 or 5.
      • Divisibility by 9 and 3: Explore the pattern of what remainders remain when you divide powers of 10 by 9 or 3.
      • Last Digits: Apply divisibility rules as well your own logic to determine just the last digit of each solution.
      • Arithmetic with Remainders: How do the remainders of an operation's inputs impact the remainder of the calculation output?
      • Digital Roots: Investigate surprising patterns that surface when you calculate digital roots.
      • Factor Trees: Factor each number one step at a time until every piece that you have is a prime.
      • Prime Factorization: Learn to use factorization as a versatile problem-solving tool with primes.
      • Factoring Factorials: Since they're defined as products, what happens when you factor them?
      • Counting Divisors: Learn a quick technique for determining how many different divisors a number has.
      • 100 Doors: Imagine a long hallway with 100 closed doors numbered 1 to 100...
      • How Many Prime Numbers Are There?: Are there finitely many prime numbers or infinitely many of them, and how can you be sure either way?
    • GCD and LCM: Learn how to compute and then apply your knowledge of greatest common divisors (GCDs) and least common multiples (LCMs).
      • 100 Doors Revisited: Again, imagine that long hallway of doors, but this time focus your attention on exactly who does what.
      • The LCM: Build intuition for where least common multiples appear in both abstract and real-life contexts.
      • Billiard Tables: Explore how the path of a ball bouncing around a pool table is affected by the table's dimensions.
      • The GCD: Use prime factorization as a tool for finding the greatest common divisors of pairs of numbers.
      • Dots on the Diagonal: When you draw a right triangle on a grid of dots, how many dots does does the hypotenuse cut through?
      • Number Jumping (I): When do these jumping rules allow you to reach every number on the number line?
      • Number Jumping (II): Develop a systematic procedure to determine the smallest positive integer that you can reach by jumps.
      • Number Jumping (III): What's the pattern to these answers? What's going on in the big picture here?
      • Relating LCM and GCD: Understand how the GCD and LCM are related by thinking about factors arranged in a Venn diagram.
      • Billiard Tables Revisited (I): Explore the patterns created when pool balls "paint" the squares they touch as they roll.
      • Billiard Tables Revisited (II): How do you get back "home" to the bottom left pocket?
    • Modular Arithmetic I: The danger of cyclic systems: one step too far and you're back where you started!
      • Times and Dates: Time, as measured by a clock or calendar, is "modular," so let's start there...
      • Modular Congruence: What happens when you wrap an infinite number line around a one-unit square?
      • Modular Arithmetic: Learn and practice doing arithmetic in the modular world.
      • Divisibility by 11: Review the rules for arithmetic with remainders and uncover the peculiar divisibility rule for 11.
      • Star Drawing (I): You probably know how to draw a 5-pointed star, but what about an 8 or 12 or 30-pointed star?
      • Star Drawing (II): Learn a general formula for the number of points a star will have.
      • Star Drawing (III): How many different 60-point stars can you make, drawing just one path on a circle of 60 points?
      • Die Hard Decanting (I): The challenge is to measure out a specific quantity of liquid using only a few types of legal moves.
      • Die Hard Decanting (II): Which pairs of containers can measure out any quantity of liquid and which ones have limited use?
    • Modular Arithmetic II: Considering the remainder "modulo" an integer is a powerful tool with many applications!
      • Additive Cycles: Explore a concept that's lurking beneath the surface of both star drawing and decanting puzzles.
      • Modular Multiplicative Inverses: Can normal equations with no integer solutions be converted into congruences that DO have solutions?
      • Multiplicative Cycles: What does exponentiation look like in modular arithmetic?
      • Fermat's Little Theorem: Use the factorization of a number to determine how many small numbers are relatively prime to it.
      • Totients: This isn't Fermat's fearsome Last Theorem, but it still packs a big punch for a little guy!
      • Last Digits Revisited: Use Euler's theorem to quickly find just the last few digits of enormous exponential towers!
      • Perfect Shuffling: Leverage what you know about totients to find any card in the deck after a series of perfect shuffles.
    • Exploring Infinity: Explore one of the most misunderstood concepts in math - infinity.
      • Counting to Infinity: To understand cardinal infinity, first start by counting and comparing finite sets.
      • Multiple Infinities: Explore a crazy world of numbers that contains infinitely many infinities, both small and large.
      • Hilbert's Hotel: Help Hilbert use his hotel that has infinitely many rooms to host infinitely many sleepy guests.
      • Infinitely Large: Can a betting game have an infinite expected value?
    • Cryptography: Dpef csfbljoh. → Code breaking.

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