This page records the module MATH40880 I taught at UCD during the second term of the academic year 2025/2026. More detailed information can be found in Brightspace. 

Time: Wednesdays (10:00 -- 12:00) and Thursdays (10:00 -- 11:00) unless specified.

Room: Science East, Room 0.32

General information: This module is an introduction on Number Theory. Topics that will be covered in the module include Chevalley--Warning Theorem, Gauß's reciprocity law, p-adic numbers, Hensel's Lemma, Hasse--Minkowski Theorem, and arithmetic of elliptic curves. 

Lecture notes: Shall be updated here.