A CLASSICAL INTRODUCTION TO MODERN NUMBER THEORY is a well-developed and accessible text that requires only a familiarity with basic abstract algebra. Historical developement is stressed throughout, along with wide-ranging coverage of significant results with comparitively elementary proofs, some of them new. This second edition has been corrected and contains two new chapters which 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.

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1 Unique Factorization.- 2 Applications of Unique Factorization.- 3 Congruence.- 4 The Structure of U(?/n?).- 5 Quadratic Reciprocity.- 6 Quadratic Gauss Sums.- 7 Finite Fields.- 8 Gauss and Jacobi Sums.- 9 Cubic and Biquadratic Reciprocity.- 10 Equations over Finite Fields.- 11 The Zeta Function.- 12 Algebraic Number Theory.- 13 Quadratic and Cyclotomic Fields.- 14 The Stickelberger Relation and the Eisenstein Reciprocity Law.- 15 Bernoulli Numbers.- 16 Dirichlet L-functions.- 17 Diophantine Equations.- 18 Elliptic Curves.- 19 The Mordell-Weil Theorem.- 20 New Progress in Arithmetic Geometry.- Selected Hints for the Exercises.