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 2004-02-23, 14:21 #1 Erasmus   Feb 2004 101112 Posts Suggestions on good number theory books??? Hi, I am in need of a number theory book to learn all such things about primes, modular arithmetics and those kind of stuff. I live in turkey and can not find all i intend to. Currently i'm studying from the book: An Introduction to THE THEORY OF NUMBERS Ivan Niven Herbert S. Zuckerman Hugh L. Montgomery Wiley Publications, 5th Edition Is there any suggestions for me to read from a better story telling book? Or a website which shows all elementary things ( please do not refer www.utm.edu/research/primes/... as it is not giving complete information ) I am impatiently waiting for your response. Bye...
 2004-02-23, 18:03 #2 rogue     "Mark" Apr 2003 Between here and the 32×52×29 Posts This is a great book dealing with factoring, primes, and algorithms: "Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective", by Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance
 2004-02-24, 11:45 #3 mklasson   Feb 2004 2×3×43 Posts "Elementary Number Theory and its applications", 4th edition by Kenneth H. Rosen is a very nice intro to number theory.
2004-02-24, 12:31   #4
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 Originally Posted by rogue This is a great book dealing with factoring, primes, and algorithms: "Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective", by Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance
Yep! That's quite good. Read it a few weeks ago.

2004-03-02, 16:57   #5
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Books on Number Theory.

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 Originally Posted by Erasmus Hi, I am in need of a number theory book to learn all such things about primes, modular arithmetics and those kind of stuff. I live in turkey and can not find all i intend to. Currently i'm studying from the book: An Introduction to THE THEORY OF NUMBERS Ivan Niven Herbert S. Zuckerman Hugh L. Montgomery Wiley Publications, 5th Edition Is there any suggestions for me to read from a better story telling book? Or a website which shows all elementary things ( please do not refer www.utm.edu/research/primes/... as it is not giving complete information ) I am impatiently waiting for your response. Bye...

The book you mention is a bit elaborate for beginners.
I would recommend the following which are very good and elementary but contains all you require to get started.
1) Invitation to number theory: Author Oystein Ore.
Publishers: The mathematical association 0f America (MAA)
Volume 20 ; ISBN 0-88385-620-4

2)Number theory and its History: Author Oystein Ore.
Publishers- Dover publications.
ISBN:0-486-65620-9 (pbk)

3)An adventurer's guide to number theory: Author, Richard Friedberg.
Publishers-Dover Publications.
ISBN 0-486-28133-7 (pbk)
These books have a bibliography which could lead you onto other books.
For these books try - Amazon.com from which you can order them.
They also have used books which are much cheaper than the new ones and in paperback Best of luck.
Mally

 2004-05-24, 15:09 #6 ewmayer ∂2ω=0     Sep 2002 República de California 13×29×31 Posts Crandall/Pomerance is great in that it achieves a nice balance between theory and practice, and gives a lot of recent exciting results which help motivate the reader to understand the material better. It also doesn't assume a deep number theory background on the part of the reader for most of its coverage, although some of the more advanced material will be difficult for the NT novice. Another book which achieves a similar balance and is extremely readable, but is a bit dated as far as algorithms go, is "Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization," by Hans Riesel, discoverer of the Mersenne prime M3217. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books The same Amazon.com page also has links to several other introductory NT texts, including Crandall/Pomerance and another one by David Bressoud (which I haven't read, so can't vouch for).
2004-05-25, 13:31   #7
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 Originally Posted by ewmayer http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books
Too bad it's out of stock on Amazon.co.uk

Luigi

 2004-05-27, 01:48 #8 Terrence Law   May 2004 2·37 Posts Suggestions and Preferable Hints. Then try to but one online at Amazon's or be interested in school math textbooks and search ofr the glossary and key words.
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 Originally Posted by Terrence Law Then try to but one online at Amazon's or be interested in school math textbooks and search ofr the glossary and key words.
I just feel disappointed having to spend $25 of mailing expenses when I could spend one third oredering the same book from UK... Luigi 2004-05-27, 15:19 #10 ewmayer 2ω=0 Sep 2002 República de California 101101101001112 Posts Quote:  Originally Posted by ET_ I just feel disappointed having to spend$25 of mailing expenses when I could spend one third oredering the same book from UK... Luigi
Did the site give you an estimate of when it might again be in stock? Can you enter a formal request for them to re-order it, or (failing that) to be notified when it's in stock again?

2004-05-28, 07:43   #11
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 Originally Posted by ewmayer Did the site give you an estimate of when it might again be in stock? Can you enter a formal request for them to re-order it, or (failing that) to be notified when it's in stock again?
As I could understand, they warmly push the customer to find some used copy. I think I will finally order from amazon.com

Luigi

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