This well-developed, accessible text details the historical development of the subject throughout. It also provides wide-ranging coverage of significant results

This well-developed, accessible text details the historical development of the subject throughout. It also provides wide-ranging coverage of significant results

. . . both Gauss and lesser mathematicians may be justified in rejoic ing that there is one science [number theory] at any rate, and that their own, whose very

In a manner accessible to beginning undergraduates, An Invitation to Modern Number Theory introduces many of the central problems, conjectures, results, and tec

From the review: "The present book has as its aim to resolve a discrepancy in the textbook literature and ... to provide a comprehensive introduction to algebra