HUNTERTUTORING

Diophantine equations and cryptography

Number theory · Theoretical / proof-based

Pythagorean triples and primitive solutions

Objectives

  • Pythagorean triples and primitive solutions
  • Sums of two squares (introduction)
  • Continued fractions (optional topic)
  • RSA and public-key cryptography from number-theoretic primitives
  • Introduction to algebraic number theory: Gaussian integers (optional)

Study materials