Prompt 1:
I think that number theory is a type of math that is concerned with the study of the integers, and of the objects and structures that naturally arise from their study.
It is one of the oldest forms of mathematics, alongside geometry, and has been studied at least since the ancient Mesopotamians and Egyptians. This is most likely because of its purely mathematical nature. Number theory has often been considered as the root to almost all parts of mathematics. A man by the name of Carl Friedrich Gauss states that mathematics is the gueen of science and that number theory is the queen of mathematics. This is man is known as the greates number theorist of all time. Number theory developed into a more specific type of mathematics now called cryptography.
Number theory is also the easy way around most problem solving. It teaches you little tricks and short cuts to getting around all of the long problems and will teach you how save an efficient amount of time.
http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/NumberTheory.html
ReplyDeleteClassy.
You seemed to have missed the part about not researching the topic. I don't care about your ability to type "What is Number Theory?" into Google and scroll down to the third entry. Your conservative paraphrasing does NOT make this an adequate response.