Download or read book Higher Arithmetic written by Harold M. Edwards and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the topics featured in this textbook are: congruences; the fundamental theorem of arithmetic; exponentiation and orders; primality testing; the RSA cipher system; polynomials; modules of hypernumbers; signatures of equivalence classes; and the theory of binary quadratic forms. The book contains exercises with answers.