A Course in Number Theory

• New, paperback edition of a popular text
• The only book which covers all the main areas in this subject

Readership: Third year and postgraduate students taking a course in number theory.

H. E. Rose, Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Bristol

"It is of interest both to students and teachers working in this field." - EMS Newsletter, No. 21, 1996

"An extremely demanding text for undergraduates, but well-suited for a mathematician who wants to learn some number theory." - American Mathematical Monthly

1: Divisibility
2: Multiplicative Functions
3: Congruence Theory
4: Quadratic Residues
5: Algebraic Topics
6: Sums of Squares and Gauss Sums
7: Continued Fractions
8: Transcendental Numbers
9: Quadratic Forms
10: Genera and the Class Group
11: Partitions
12: The Prime Numbers
13: Two Major Theorems on the Primes
14: Diophantine Equations
15: Elliptic Curves: Basic Theory
16: Elliptic Curves: Further Results and Applications
Answers and Hints to Problems
Tables
Bibliography
Index to Notation
General Index