theory of numbers
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of theory of numbers
First recorded in 1805–15
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Stephen graduated top of his class from James Madison High School, won a Westinghouse Science Talent award for a problem involving the theory of numbers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was one of the world's geniuses in the theory of numbers, and was one of the founders of the theory of probabilities and of analytic geometry.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
The theory of numbers as the symbols of certain qualities was originally borrowed by the Masons from the school of Pythagoras.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
These range from the puzzle that the algebraist finds to be nothing but a "simple equation," quite easy of direct solution, up to the profoundest problems in the elegant domain of the theory of numbers.
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney
The “Porisms” quoted are interesting propositions in the theory of numbers, one of which was clearly that the difference between two cubes can be resolved into the sum of two cubes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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