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Number Theory (Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics) | 
 enlarge | Author: George E. Andrews
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 60959
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 259
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0486682528
Dewey Decimal Number: 512.7
EAN: 9780486682525
Publication Date: October 12, 1994
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Product Description
Written by an distinguished mathematician and teacher, this undergraduate text uses a combinatorial approach to accommodate both math majors and liberal arts students. In addition to covering the basics of number theory, it offers an outstanding introduction to partitions, plus chapters on multiplicativity-divisibility, quadratic congruences, additivity, and more.
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 Excellent text by expert in the field December 22, 2000
Nimbus (Clownifornia)
66 out of 66 found this review helpful
George Andrews is the reigning expert on partitions in the mathematical community who has written many seminal papers on the subject over the past half-century! If you don't know what partitions are in the theoretical sense, don't worry, the text provides ample introduction. I don't think you can find a more elementary introduction to the difficult, but extraordinarily powerful and elegant theory of partitions. The book covers the basics of number theory well, but it is the chapters on partitions that make this text stand out. It covers the Rogers-Ramanujan identities as well as the Jacobi triple product identity. It is rare in the mathematical community that an expert in a subject also writes a ground-level introductory text - but that's what you have here. Thanks to the dover edition, it's now quite affordable.
Won't Be Over Your Head May 3, 2004
Inspector2211
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
The other reviews pretty much say it all. The book begins with a pedestrian approach to the topic and then gradually becomes more complex. Should be accessible to most readers.
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Michael De (St Andrews, Scotland)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have a background in logic but absolutely none in elementary number theory or abstract algebra and I am using this as a first-time study guide. I find it very good. I have to mull over some of the proofs and examples since certain shortcuts are not immediately evident to me, but everything is generally clear and easy to follow. There are very few historical remarks which may or may not be a bonus for some. And as Dover does, they are practically giving this thing away.
Good one! July 14, 1998
24 out of 42 found this review helpful
Starts with the basics and works logically up to more advanced concepts. Has problem sets that really serve to teach the material well. Get it, now.
Good June 1, 2008
Pawin Vongmasa (Stanford, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The author tries to make things easy, and he succeeds in most parts. However, some proofs seem to be simple, but they actually involve complicated reasoning. My suggestion is that the author should not try to hide these difficult parts by reformulating abstract things into simple objects because it doesn't really help. I'd rather see difficulties in proofs than follow them with no idea why they have to be like that.
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