Introduction to Number Theory

Quote of the course:

"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development

of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."

    Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, Viking, Penguin (1995)


 Syllabus  (English SyllabusLink to the course directory

Recommended books:  J. LeVeque,  Fundamentals of Number Theory, and zillions of other books in Elementary Number Theory including a nice book from the Open University (M. Burton, Elementary Number theory;  also in Hebrew: library number 11-01).

Online notes: 

Notes by W. Stein (approach based on computations with PARI, very extensive and computationally oriented) 


From  History of Number Theory: 

Past Exams (note different formats of exams over years).