A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory
Authors: Ireland, K., Rosen, M.
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- About this Textbook
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This book is a revised and greatly expanded version of our book Elements of Number Theory published in 1972. As with the first book the primary audience we envisage consists of upper level undergraduate mathematics majors and graduate students. We have assumed some familiarity with the material in a standard undergraduate course in abstract algebra. A large portion of Chapters 1-11 can be read even without such background with the aid of a small amount of supplementary reading. The later chapters assume some knowledge of Galois theory, and in Chapters 16 and 18 an acquaintance with the theory of complex variables is necessary. Number theory is an ancient subject and its content is vast. Any intro ductory book must, of necessity, make a very limited selection from the fascinat ing array of possible topics. Our focus is on topics which point in the direction of algebraic number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry. By a careful selection of subject matter we have found it possible to exposit some rather advanced material without requiring very much in the way oftechnical background. Most of this material is classical in the sense that is was dis covered during the nineteenth century and earlier, but it is also modern because it is intimately related to important research going on at the present time.
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From the reviews of the second edition:
K. Ireland and M. Rosen
A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory
"Many mathematicians of this generation have reached the frontiers of research without having a good sense of the history of their subject. In number theory this historical ignorance is being alleviated by a number of fine recent books. This work stands among them as a unique and valuable contribution."
— MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
"This is a great book, one that does exactly what it proposes to do, and does it well. For me, this is the go-to book whenever a student wants to do an advanced independent study project in number theory. … for a student who wants to get started on the subject and has taken a basic course on elementary number theory and the standard abstract algebra course, this is perfect." (Fernando Q. Gouvêa, MathDL, January, 2006)
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Unique Factorization
Pages 1-16
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Applications of Unique Factorization
Pages 17-27
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Congruence
Pages 28-38
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The Structure of U(ℤ/nℤ)
Pages 39-49
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Quadratic Reciprocity
Pages 50-65
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory
- Authors
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- K. Ireland
- M. Rosen
- Series Title
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics
- Series Volume
- 84
- Copyright
- 1982
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4757-1779-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4757-1779-2
- Series ISSN
- 0072-5285
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 344
- Topics
