Fifty years after it made the transition from mimeographed lecture notes to a published book, Armand Borel's Introduction aux groupes arithmétiques continues t
Geometry and the theory of numbers are as old as some of the oldest historical records of humanity. Ever since antiquity, mathematicians have discovered many be
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Among the topics featured in this textbook are: congruences; the fundamental theorem of arithmetic; exponentiation and orders; primality testing; the RSA cipher