An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers

Short description: Book by Godfrey Harold Hardy

An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers is a classic textbook in the field of number theory, by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright.

The book grew out of a series of lectures by Hardy and Wright and was first published in 1938.

The third edition added an elementary proof of the prime number theorem, and the sixth edition added a chapter on elliptic curves.

See also

• List of important publications in mathematics

References

• Bell, E. T. (1939), "Book Review: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 45 (7): 507–509, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1939-07025-0, ISSN 0002-9904 
• Hardy, Godfrey Harold; Wright, E. M. (1938), An introduction to the theory of numbers. (First ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press 
• Hardy, Godfrey Harold; Wright, E. M. (1954) [1938], An introduction to the theory of numbers (Third ed.), Oxford, at the Clarendon Press 
• Hardy, Godfrey Harold; Wright, E. M. (1979) [1938], An introduction to the theory of numbers (Fifth ed.), The Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-853171-5, https://archive.org/details/introductiontoth00hard 
• Hardy, Godfrey Harold; Wright, E. M. (2008) [1938], Heath-Brown, D. R.; Silverman, J. H., eds., An introduction to the theory of numbers (Sixth ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-921986-5, https://books.google.com/books?id=d3wpAQAAMAAJ