MSC2020's 11 block: the properties of the integers and their generalizations, prime numbers, divisibility, and the equations that ask for whole-number solutions. Belongs here: number theory, analytic number theory, which borrows calculus to study primes, and algebraic number theory, which studies number fields with algebra. Does not belong here: general algebra, its own category here, even though algebraic number theory sits at that border.
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1. Number Theory (Wikipedia)
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The earliest historical find of an arithmetical nature is the Plimpton 322, dated c. 1800 BC.
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