Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 0: Warm- up: The Triangle Game; Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Number Theory; Chapter 2: Axioms in Number Theory; Chapter 3: Divisibility and Primes; Chapter 4: The Division and Euclidean Algorithms; Chapter 5: Variations on a Theme; Chapter 6: Congruences and Groups; Chapter 7: Applications of Congruences; Chapter 8: Rational Numbers and Real Numbers; Chapter 9: Introduction to Geometry and Symmetry; Chapter 10: Polygons and Their Construction; Chapter 11: Symmetry Groups; Chapter 12: Permutations; Chapter 13: Polyhedra
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