02172nam a2200241Ia 4500 OSt 20250719102058.0 210210b2009 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9783540761976 9788181282781 AL English 512.7 JONE Gareth A Jones and others 172254 Elementary Number Theory New Delhi Springer 2009 xiv,301p. 1172 ₹2614.50 €34.99 ₹3268.00 Our intention in writing this book is to give an elementary introduction to number theory which does not demand a great deal of mathematical back- ground or maturity from the reader, and which can be read and understood with no extra assistance. Our first three chapters are based almost entirely on A-level mathematics, while the next five require little else beyond some el- ementary group theory. It is only in the last three chapters, where we treat more advanced topics, including recent developments, that we require greater mathematical background; here we use some basic ideas which students would expect to meet in the first year or so of a typical undergraduate course in math- ematics. Throughout the book, we have attempted to explain our arguments as fully and as clearly as possible, with plenty of worked examples and with outline solutions for all the exercises. There are several good reasons for choosing number theory as a subject. It has a long and interesting history, ranging from the earliest recorded times to the present day (see Chapter 11, for instance, on Fermat's Last Theorem), and its problems have attracted many of the greatest mathematicians; consequently the study of number theory is an excellent introduction to the development and achievements of mathematics (and, indeed, some of its failures). In particular, the explicit nature of many of its problems, concerning basic properties of inte- gers, makes number theory a particularly suitable subject in which to present modern mathematics in elementary terms Number Theory 172255 Jones, Mary J 172257 064805 ddc BK 141777 141777 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAT AL AL Mathematics 2021-02-17 Athulya Books, Kannur 225.00 0 512.7 JONE 064805 2021-02-17 00:00:00 2021-02-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 3 MAT AL AL RS 2024-06-03 Biblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014 2614.50 0 512.7 JONE 077215 2024-07-02 00:00:00 3268.00 2024-07-02 REF 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAT AL AL 2024-06-03 Biblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014 2614.50 1 512.7 JONE 077216 2025-01-21 00:00:00 2025-01-20 3268.00 2024-07-02 BK