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Some Preliminary Considerations. 2. Divisibility Theory in the Integers. 3. Primes and Their Distribution. 4. The Theory of Congruences. 5. Fermat's Theorem. 6. Number-Theoretic Functions. 7. Euler's Generalization of Fermat's Theorem. 8. Primitive Roots and Indices. 9. The Quadratic Reciprocity Law. 10. Perfect Numbers. 11. The Fermat Conjecture. 12. Representation of Integers as Sums of Squares. 13. Fibonacci Numbers. 14. Continued Fractions. 15. Some Twentieth-Century Developments.
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