Academic Catalog

IAM518 BASIC MATHEMATICS FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY II

Course Code:	9700518
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Institute Of Applied Mathematics
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Prof.Dr. ABDURRAHÝM YILMAZ
Offered Semester:	Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Algebraic Preliminaries: Group, Ring, Ideals, Prime and Maximal ideals, Homomorphisms, Isomorphism theorems, Field, Polynomials, Field extensions, Finite fields, Factorization of polynomials, Splitting field. Quadratic residues and quadratic reciprocity.