theory of numbers

American  

noun

1. number theory.

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Etymology

Origin of theory of numbers

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

For more information on congruent numbers, congrua, and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, check out the show notes for our episode of My Favorite Theorem with Matilde Lalín or History of the Theory of Numbers Volume II by Leonard Eugene Dickson.

From Scientific American

Nearly four years after Shinichi Mochizuki unveiled an imposing set of papers that could revolutionize the theory of numbers, other mathematicians have yet to understand his work or agree on its validity — although they have made modest progress.

From Nature

If the theory of numbers belongs to pure mathematics, the study of the place of the number concept in the system of human ideas belongs to philosophy.

From Project Gutenberg

No, the theory of functions, the theory of numbers, group theory, have a significance which no mathematician would consent to measure in terms of the present applicability or non-applicability of these theories in physical science?

From Project Gutenberg

Relations of this sort, which the discussions of the number concept by Dedekind, Cantor, Peano, and Russell have recently brought to light—such relations, I say, constitute what truly justified Gauss in calling the theory of numbers a "divine science."

From Project Gutenberg