1. The intriguing natural numbers; 2. Divisibility; 3. Prime numbers; 4. Perfect and amicable numbers; 5. Modular arithmetic; 6. Congruences of higher degree; 7. Cryptography; 8. Representations; 9. Partitions; Tables; Answers to selected exercises; Bibliography.
A second edition textbook intended to serve as a one-semester introductory course in number theory.
James Tattersall is a Professor of Mathematics at Providence College.
'In the second edition the author updated information on several conjectures and open problems, made certain corrections and added almost 400 new exercises.' Zentralblatt MATH
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