This book reproduces, with minor changes, the notes prepared for a course given at Brigham Young University during the academic year 1984-1985. It is intended to be an introduction to the theory of numbers. The audience consisted largely of undergraduate students with no more background than high school mathematics. The presentation was thus kept as elementary and self-contained as possible. However, because the discussion was, generally, carried far enough to introduce the audience to some areas of current research, the book should also be useful to graduate students. The only prerequisite to reading the book is an interest in and aptitude for mathe matics. Though the topics may seem unrelated, the study of diophantine equations has been our main goal. I am indebted to several mathematicians whose published as well as unpublished work has been freely used throughout this book. In particular, the Phillips Lectures at Haverford College given by Professor John T. Tate have been an important source of material for the book. Some parts of Chapter 5 on algebraic curves are, for example, based on these lectures.

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"The book can be recommended very much to everyone who is interested in topics of number theory which can be understood and lectured on without many prerequisites from algebra or calculus." -- MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS

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Brigham Young University, Provo, USA

J. S. Chahal

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Book Title: Topics in Number Theory
Authors: J. S. Chahal
Series Title: University Series in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0439-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42866-1Published: 30 June 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0441-6Published: 05 June 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0439-3Published: 11 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 191
Topics: Algebra

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