A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory

Graduate Texts in Mathematics #84

by Kenneth F. Ireland, Michael I. Rosen

This well-developed, accessible text details the historical development of the subject throughout. It also provides wide-ranging coverage of significant results with comparatively elementary proofs, some of them new. This second edition contains two new chapters that provide a complete proof of the Mordel-Weil theorem for elliptic curves over the rational numbers and an overview of recent progress on the arithmetic of elliptic curves.

Genres: Mathematics, Number Theory, Textbooks, Science, Reference, Nonfiction, Algebra

408 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Lixin]

Book takes too long. First chapters are fairly accessible, for a graduate level text.

[Dan]

I just read the chapter about the elliptic curve y^2 = x^3 + Dx, it was pretty good.

[Lulu]

Number Theory