文档介绍：Graduate Texts in Mathematics 232
Editorial Board
S. Axler . Ribet
Graham Everest
Thomas Ward
An Introduction to
Number Theory
With 16 Figures
Graham Everest, BSc, PhD Thomas Ward, BSc, MSc, PhD
School of Mathematics School of Mathematics
University of East Anglia University of East Anglia
Norwich Norwich
NR4 7TJ NR4 7TJ
UK UK
Editorial Board
S. Axler . Ribet
Mathematics Department Department of Mathematics
San Francisco State University University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco, CA 94132 Berkeley, CA 94720-3840
USA USA
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 11Y05/11/16/55
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Everest, Graham, 1957–
An introduction to number theory. —(Graduate texts in
mathematics ; 232)
1. Number theory
I. Title II. Ward, Thomas, 1963–
ISBN 1852339179
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