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This chapter will introduce many important concepts that will be used throughout the rest of the book. Number theory this book covers an elementary introduction to number theory, with an emphasis on presenting and proving a large number of theorems. Underwood dudley, elementary number theory, is an excellent introductory text and exceptionally inexpensive. Number theory and its history pdf free download epdf. Zhuravlev, translations of mathematical monographs, 145, ams 1995. Andrews, evan pugh professor of mathematics at pennsylvania state university, author of the wellestablished text number theory first published by saunders in 1971 and reprinted by dover in 1994, has led an active career discovering fascinating phenomena in his chosen field number theory.
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