Authors: Gareth A. Jones, Josephine M. Jones
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
An undergraduate-level introduction to number theory, with the emphasis on fully explained proofs and examples. Exercises, together with their solutions are integrated into the text, and the first few chapters assume only basic school algebra. Elementary ideas about groups and rings are then used to study groups of units, quadratic