Number Theory (Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics)

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Summary: Excellent text by expert in the field
Review: George Andrews is the reigning expert on partitions in the mathematical community who has written many seminal papers on the subject over the past half-century! If you don't know what partitions are in the theoretical sense, don't worry, the text provides ample introduction. I don't think you can find a more elementary introduction to the difficult, but extraordinarily powerful and elegant theory of partitions. The book covers the basics of number theory well, but it is the chapters on partitions that make this text stand out. It covers the Rogers-Ramanujan identities as well as the Jacobi triple product identity. It is rare in the mathematical community that an expert in a subject also writes a ground-level introductory text - but that's what you have here. Thanks to the dover edition, it's now quite affordable.

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Summary: Good one!
Review: Starts with the basics and works logically up to more advanced concepts. Has problem sets that really serve to teach the material well. Get it, now.

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Summary: Won't Be Over Your Head
Review: The other reviews pretty much say it all. The book begins with a pedestrian approach to the topic and then gradually becomes more complex. Should be accessible to most readers.

Rating:
Summary: Won't Be Over Your Head
Review: The other reviews pretty much say it all. The book begins with a pedestrian approach to the topic and then gradually becomes more complex. Should be accessible to most readers.