What is a very helpful book for elementary number theory? I would like to teach myself and I need help finding a book that would be able to do this.
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What's your question? – barak manos Aug 02 '16 at 14:28
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I learned from this one and I really liked it, you can get it on amazon for a penny plus shipping: https://smile.amazon.com/Introduction-Number-Theory-William-Adams/dp/0134912829/ref=sr_1_2?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1470148190&sr=8-2&keywords=number+theory+adams – Gregory Grant Aug 02 '16 at 14:30
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@Gregory Grant- Thank You. – R.Holmes Aug 02 '16 at 14:35
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George Andrew's number theory is fun and good.
Ivan Niven's book is complete and covers continuous fractions really well
Ireland and Rosen's modern number theory is a master piece, but requires some notions of modern algebra
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There are several elementary number theory books available from Dover. Since they are really inexpensive you can get several and see the same material expressed in several ways, which may help you in self study.
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-mathematics-theory.html
Friedbergs's "An Adventurers Guide to Number Theory" is off-beat but perhaps interesting. Also Dover, her's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Adventurers-Guide-Number-Theory-Mathematics/dp/0486281337
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