A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory (1990. Corr. 5th Printing 1998)Hardcover - 1990. Corr. 5th Printing 1998, 7 September 1990

This well-developed, accessible text details the historical development of the subject throughout. It also provides wide-ranging coverage of significant results with comparatively elementary proofs, some of them new. This second edition contains two new chapters that provide a complete proof of the Mordel-Weil theorem for elliptic curves over the rational numbers and an overview of recent progress on the arithmetic of elliptic curves.