Resources
No paid purchase is required. Primary source: MIT OpenCourseWare, Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2015.
- Course reading index.
- GCDs and number theory, Chapter 8.1–8.5.
- Congruences, Chapter 8.6–8.9.
- Existing degree reference: orientation and provenance, not a replacement for the original.
Source links and chapter titles checked 2026-10-22. The required local lessons, tasks and lab are original. Optional later reading on RSA, CRT or sieves should be budgeted separately. Do not infer that finishing this module qualifies a toy implementation for production cryptography.