An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers

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An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Author G. H. Hardy
E. M. Wright
LanguageEnlgish
Subject Number theory
Genre Textbook
Published1938
Publisher Clarendon Press
OCLC 879664

An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers is a classic textbook in the field of number theory, by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright.

The book grew out of a series of lectures by Hardy and Wright and was first published in 1938.

The third edition added an elementary proof of the prime number theorem, and the sixth edition added a chapter on elliptic curves.

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