Question about number theory
Hi, now I am learning Number Theory and I have a few questions which I want to discuss. My first question is "Can anyone list topics which appear in Number Theory". I just know few topics like divisibility, some equations (Diophantine, Pell, ...), ... My second question is that in this link: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=131, I see the topic "Basic Algebraic Number Theory and applications" and "Analysis and Number Theory", are these also kinds of Number Theory or they are different? Thank you.
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Thank you so much, Sayan. But I'm still confused about the difference between "algebraic number theory", " analytic number theory", "additive number theory", " computational number theory". Can you explain more specific for me? Thank you.
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