Don Redmond (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA) (Author)

• An historical introduction; congruences; quadratic residues; approximation of real numbers; diophantine equations I; diophantine equations II; arithmetic functions; the average order of arithmetic functions; prime number theory; an introduction to algebraic number theory.

"This work is obviously a labor of love. . ..The author has chosen a wide variety of topics that illustrate many different techniques used in number theory, and he succeeds in showing how other parts of mathematics play a role in studying properties of the integers. "---Zentralblatt fur Mathematik