An Introduction to Number Theory provides an introduction to the main streams of number theory. Starting with the unique factorization property of the integers, the theme of factorization is revisited several times throughout the book to illustrate how the ideas handed down from Euclid continue to reverberate through the subject.
A number of different approaches to number theory are presented, and the different streams in the book are brought together in a chapter that describes the class number formula for quadratic fields and the famous conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. The final chapter introduces some of the main ideas behind modern computational number theory and its applications in cryptography.
Written for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of mathematics, this text will also appeal to students in cognate subjects who wish to learn some of the big ideas in number theory.
| ISBN: | 9781852339173 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2005 |
| Author: | Graham Everest, Thomas Ward |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer London |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 294 pages |
| Series: | Graduate Texts in Mathematics |
An Introduction to Number Theory provides an introduction to the main streams of number theory. Starting with the unique factorization property of the integers, the theme of factorization is revisited several times throughout the book to illustrate how the ideas handed down from Euclid continue to reverberate through the subject.
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An Introduction to Number Theory was written by Graham Everest, Thomas Ward and published by Springer an imprint of Springer London
An Introduction to Number Theory has 294 pages
Yes it is part of Graduate Texts in Mathematics series