This introductory textbook is designed to teach undergraduates the basic ideas and techniques of number theory, with special consideration to the principles of analytic number theory. Among the strong points of the book are its clarity of exposition and a collection of exercises at the end of each chapter. The first ten chapters, with the exception of one section, are accessible to anyone with knowledge of elementary calculus; the last four chapters require some knowledge of complex function theory including complex integration and residue calculus.

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"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

Zusammenfassung
Suitable for undergraduates, this book starts with the most elementary properties of the natural integers.

Inhalt
Historical Introduction.- 1 The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic.- 2 Arithmetical Functions and Dirichlet Multiplication.- 3 Averages of Arithmetical Functions.- 4 Some Elementary Theorems on the Distribution of Prime Numbers.- 5 Congruences.- 6 Finite Abelian Groups and Their Characters.- 7 Dirichlet'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 ?(s) and L(s, ?).- 13 Analytic Proof of the Prime Number Theorem.- 14 Partitions.- Index of Special Symbols.