The author's classic concise introduction now fully updated and developed to suit courses extending from primers to introductions to research. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 b/w illus. 195 exercises. BIC Classification: GPJ; PBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400. . 2012. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: A Comprehensive Course in Number Theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 110760379X
ISBN 13: 9781107603790
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Developed from the author's popular text, A Concise Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, this book provides a comprehensive initiation to all the major branches of number theory. Beginning with the rudiments of the subject, the author proceeds to more advanced topics, including elements of cryptography and primality testing, an account of number fields in the classical vein including properties of their units, ideals and ideal classes, aspects of analytic number theory including studies of the Riemann zeta-function, the prime-number theorem and primes in arithmetical progressions, a description of the Hardy–Littlewood and sieve methods from respectively additive and multiplicative number theory and an exposition of the arithmetic of elliptic curves. The book includes many worked examples, exercises and further reading. Its wider coverage and versatility make this book suitable for courses extending from the elementary to beginning graduate studies.

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Alan Baker is Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His many distinctions include the Fields Medal (1970) and the Adams Prize (1972).

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