Challenge: Can you find all the integers a, b, c satisfying 2a2+3b2=5c2? Looks simple, and there are in fact a number of easy solutions. But most of them turn out to be anything but obvious! There are infinitely many possibilities, and as any computer will tell you, each of a, b, c will usually be large. So the challenge remains …\n\nFind all integers a, b, c satisfying 2a2+3b2=5c2.\n\nA major advance in number theory means this book can give an easy answer to this and countless similar questions. The idea behind the approach is transforming a degree\-two equation in integer variables a, b, c into a plane curve defined by a polynomial. Working with the curve makes obtaining solutions far easier, and the geometric solutions then get translated back into integers. This method morphs hard problems into routine ones and typically requires no more than high school math. (The complete solution to 2a2+3b2=5c2 is included in the book.)\n\nIn addition to equations of degree two, the book addresses degree\-three equations―a branch of number theory that is today something of a cottage industry, and these problems translate into “elliptic curves”. This important part of the book includes many pictures along with the exposition, making the material meaningful and easy to grasp.\n\nThis book will fit nicely into an introductory course on number theory. In addition, the many solved examples, illustrations, and exercises make self\-studying the book an option for students, thus becoming a natural candidate for a capstone course.

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