Introduction to Analytic Number Theory [Paperback]

This book is the first volume of a two-volume textbook for undergraduates and is indeed the crystallization of a course offered by the author at the California Institute of Technology to undergraduates without any previous knowledge of number theory. For this reason, the book starts with the most elementary properties of the natural integers. Nevertheless, the text succeeds in presenting an enormous amount of material in little more than 300 pages. -MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS

1: The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. 2: Arithmetical Functions and Dirichlet Multiplication. 3: Averages of Arithmetical Function. 4: Some Elementary Theorems on the Distribution of Prime Numbers. 5: Congruences. 6: Finite Abelian Groups and Their Characters. 7: Cirichlet's Theorem on Primes in Arithmetic Progressions. 8: Periodic Arithmetical Functions and Gauss Sums. 9: Quadratic Residues and the Quadratic Reciprocity Law. 10: Primitive Roots. 11: Dirichlet Series and Euler Products. 12: The Functions. 13: Analytic Proof of the Prime Number Theorem. 14: Partitions.

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T.M. Apostol

Introduction to Analytic Number Theory

This book is the first volume of a two-volume textbook for undergraduates and is indeed the crystallization of a course offered by the author at the California Institute of Technology to undergraduates without any previous knowledge of number theory. For this reason, the book starts with the most elementary properties of the natural integers. Nevertheless, the text succeeds in presenting an enormous amount of material in little more than 300 pages. The presentation is invariably lucid and the book is a real pleasure to read.

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After reading Introduction to Analytic Number Theory one is left with the impression that the author, Tom M. Apostal, has pulled off some magic trick. & I must admilӗ