NTIC List of Historical Remarks

Appendix B List of Historical Remarks

For convenience, below we collect some of the short historical remarks in the text. We hope these, and the many places where the history was part and parcel of the main text, whetted the reader's appetite for more investigations!

There is a huge number of places to learn about the history of number theory – including many of the books and articles in the References and Further Resources, especially the Historical References. Another excellent compendium of resources about mathematics history more generally is the MacTutor site.

Historical remark 2.3.2 Euclid's Elements

Historical remark 2.4.7 Bezout and friends

Historical remark 3.1.1 Diophantine and his equations

Historical remark 3.5.2 Bachet de Méziriac

Historical remark 3.5.3 Bachet equation

Historical remark 3.5.6 Catalan's conjecture – solved

Historical remark 5.3.3 Ancient Chinese work on remainders

Historical remark 6.2.4 Eratosthenes

Historical remark 7.2.4 Hensel's Lemma

Historical remark 11.3.5 Diffie and Hellman

Historical remark 11.4.1 Diffie-Hellman controversy

Historical remark 11.5.2 Who is RSA?