A Course in Arithmetic (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) - Softcover

Serre, Jean Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387900411 ISBN 13: 9780387900414

Publisher: Springer-Verlag, 1973

Synopsis

Serre's "A Course in Arithmetic" is a concentrated, modern introduction to basically three areas of number theory, quadratic forms, Dirichlet's density theorem, and modular forms. The first edition was very well accepted and is now one of the leading introductory texts on the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. "...The book is carefully written - in particular very much self-contained. As was the intention of the author, it is easily accessible to graduate or even undergraduate students, yet even the advanced mathematician will enjoy reading it. The last chapter, more difficult for the beginner, is an introduction to contemporary problems." - "American Scientist".

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Review

“The book is a showcase of how some results in classical number theory (the Arithmetic of the title) can be derived quickly using abstract algebra. ... There are a reasonable number of worked examples, and they are very well-chosen. ... this book will expand your horizons, but you should already have a good knowledge of algebra and of classical number theory before you begin.” (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, maa.org, July, 2016)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0387900411
• ISBN 13: 9780387900414
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 115