Basic treatment, incorporating language of abstract algebra and a history of the discipline. Topics include unique factorization and the GCD, quadratic residues, number-theoretic functions and the distribution of primes, sums of squares, quadratic equations and quadratic fields, diophantine approxima... read more
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Basic treatment, incorporating language of abstract algebra and a history of the discipline. Topics include unique factorization and the GCD, quadratic residues, number-theoretic functions and the distribution of primes, sums of squares, quadratic equations and quadratic fields, diophantine approximation, more. Includes many problems. Bibliography. Advanced undergraduate-beginning graduate-level. 1977 edition.
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