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The core of Volume 3 consists of lecture notes for seven sets of lectures Hilbert gave (often in collaboration with Bernays) on the foundations of mathematics between 1917 and 1926. These texts make possible for the first time a detailed reconstruction of the rapid development of Hilbert’s foundational thought during this period, and show the increasing dominance of the metamathematical perspective in his logical work: the emergence of modern mathematical logic; the explicit raising of questions of completeness, consistency and decidability for logical systems; the investigation of the relative strengths of various logical calculi; the birth and evolution of proof theory, and the parallel emergence of Hilbert’s finitist standpoint. The lecture notes are accompanied by numerous supplementary documents, both published and unpublished, including a complete version of Bernays’s Habilitationschrift of 1918, the text of the first edition of Hilbert and Ackermann’s Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik (1928), and several shorter lectures by Hilbert from the later 1920s. These documents, which provide the background to Hilbert and Bernays’s monumental Grundlagen der Mathematik (1934, 1938), are essential for understanding the development of modern mathematical logic, and for reconstructing the interactions between Hilbert, Bernays, Brouwer, and Weyl in the philosophy of mathematics.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The arithmetic and geometry of moduli spaces and their fundamental groups are a very active research area. This book offers a complete overview of developments made over the last decade.

The papers in this volume examine the geometry of moduli spaces of curves with a function on them. The main players in Part 1 are the absolute Galois group $G_{\mathbb Q}$ of the algebraic numbers and its close relatives. By analyzing how $G_{\mathbb Q}$ acts on fundamental groups defined by Hurwitz moduli problems, the authors achieve a grand generalization of Serre's program from the 1960s.

Papers in Part 2 apply $\theta$-functions and configuration spaces to the study of fundamental groups over positive characteristic fields. In this section, several authors use Grothendieck's famous lifting results to give extensions to wildly ramified covers. Properties of the fundamental groups have brought collaborations between geometers and group theorists. Several Part 3 papers investigate new versions of the genus 0 problem. In particular, this includes results severely limiting possible monodromy groups of sphere covers. Finally, Part 4 papers treat Deligne's theory of Tannakian categories and arithmetic versions of the Kodaira-Spencer map.

This volume is geared toward graduate students and research mathematicians interested in arithmetic algebraic geometry. ... Read more

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This book resulted from a research conference in arithmetic geometry held at Arizona State University in March 1993. The papers describe important recent advances in arithmetic geometry. Several articles deal with $p$-adic modular forms of half-integral weight and their roles in arithmetic geometry. The volume also contains material on the Iwasawa theory of cyclotomic fields, elliptic curves, and function fields, including $p$-adic $L$-functions and $p$-adic height pairings. Other articles focus on the inverse Galois problem, fields of definition of abelian varieties with real multiplication, and computation of torsion groups of elliptic curves. The volume also contains a previously unpublished letter of John Tate, written to J.-P. Serre in 1973, concerning Serre's conjecture on Galois representations. With contributions by some of the leading experts in the field, this book provides a look at the state of the art in arithmetic geometry. ... Read more

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A guide to the most frequently tested subjects in the civil service exam features drills and practices in all areas of everyday arithmetic, expert guidance in vocabulary building, test-taking tips and strategies, and information on working for the government. ... Read more

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Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of math students more than word problems. In How to Solve Word Problems in Arithmetic, noted math teacher Phyllis Pullman defangs the dreaded word problem for 5th through 8th grade-level arithmetic students by emphasizing the mechanics and grammar of problem-solving, and focusing on problems involving arithmetic skills, area, percent, basic geometry, measurement, and statistics. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Mathematics is very much a part of our culture; and this invaluable collection serves the purpose of developing the branches involved, popularizing the existing theories and guiding our future explorations. More precisely, the goal is to bring the reader to the frontier of current developments in arithmetic geometry and number theory through the works of Deninger-Werner in vector bundles on curves over p-adic fields; of Jiang on local gamma factors in automorphic representations; of Weng on Deligne pairings and Takhtajan-Zograf metrics; of Yoshida on CM-periods; of Yu on transcendence of special values of zetas over finite fields. In addition, the lecture notes presented by Weng at the University of Toronto from October to November 2005 explain basic ideas and the reasons (not just the language and conclusions) behind Langlands' fundamental, yet notably difficult, works on the Eisenstein series and spectral decompositions.And finally, a brand new concept by Weng called the Geometric Arithmetic program that uses algebraic and/or analytic methods, based on geometric considerations, to develop the promising and yet to be cultivated land of global arithmetic that includes non-abelian Class Field Theory, Riemann Hypothesis and non-abelian Zeta and L Functions, etc. ... Read more

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The best on the subject
This book containts a complete description of the most common techniques of computer arithmetic.It makes no assumptions about the readers foreknowledge of the subject.However, it also has no more words than are needed to describe the algorithms completely.

An understanding of digital logic fundamentals is advised.This is not a book on modern high-speed circuit design techniques.It is best used as a (RTL level) logic design reference. ... Read more

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Digital arithmetic plays an important role in the design of general-purpose digital processors and of embedded systems for signal processing, graphics, and communications. In spite of a mature body of knowledge in digital arithmetic, each new generation of processors or digital systems creates new arithmetic design problems. Designers, researchers, and graduate students will find solid solutions to these problems in this comprehensive, state-of-the-art exposition of digital arithmetic.

Ercegovac and Lang, two of the field's leading experts, deliver a unified treatment of digital arithmetic, tying underlying theory to design practice in a technology-independent manner. They consistently use an algorithmic approach in defining arithmetic operations, illustrate concepts with examples of designs at the logic level, and discuss cost/performance characteristics throughout. Students and practicing designers alike will find Digital Arithmetic a definitive reference and a consistent teaching tool for developing a deep understanding of the "arithmetic style" of algorithms and designs.

·Guides readers to develop sound solutions, avoid known mistakes, and repeat successful design decisions.
·Presents comprehensive coverage¾from fundamental theories to current research trends.
·Written in a clear and engaging style by two masters of the field.
·Concludes each chapter with in-depth discussions of the key literature.
·Includes a full set of over 250 exercises, an on-line appendix with solutions to one-third of the exercises and 600 lecture slides ... Read more

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Well written and comprehensive
This is a very comprehensive, but also easy to read, book on Floating-Point Design. Written by two experts in the field. Helped me greatly when I was designing the FP units of various processors.

Too much generalization
I worked in the electronic design automation industry and I bought this book to read about multi-operand additions.My objective was to implement a cluster of arithmetic operations as a carry-save adder tree to minimize delay/power etc.I did not find this book to be useful for my purpose.It started the discussion with generalized reduction schemes that were quite confusing.I found the original research papers to be much more enlightening than this book.

This book can be safely skipped
A good book should be concise, clear and also should pack good deal of information. This book fails on all 3 counts.
1)This is a thick book which makes for a nice pillow, yet the topics, I wanted to learn, lack depth. And I am talking about adders and multipliers. After skimming thr' adders & multipliers, I could find very little new info I not knew about. This book should have been titled "Introduction to digital arithmetic".
2)The notation and the figures used in the book are unconventional and hard to follow. I had a tough time to read thr' 5 pages without getting frustated. You have to think hard just to figure out what the authors want to tell.

Finally I want to say, if you want to learn about digital arithmetic, better buy Koren. I bought both the books at the same time, and found Koren lot better. IMO putting 1hr effort on reading Koren = 10hrs effort reading this book

Too academic for engineers
This book has too many maths and not very intuitive. It has some fancy alternative algorithms never used in any designs. For engineers working on implementation, there are many other books far better than this one. The early review over-rates this book and is very misleading. Because of these reviews, I purchased this book and found it very disappointing.

Not a good book
I'm taking a course which uses this book as the main textbook, and I find its explanations poorly written.I would suggest buying the book "Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, 2nd Edition" by Israel Koren instead, which covers the same material in a manner I find more straightforward. ... Read more

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Introduces concepts and theorems in a way that does not assume in-depth knowledge of the theory of numbers. Although primarily for the general reader, this book could be used as a text for an undergraduate course in number theory. ... Read more

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some basic material explained
The title leads one to higher expectations than the text
actually delivers?
The book has some basic topics in number theory,
but isn't so new or so well written as one might expect.
That the book has gone past seven printing seems to show that it has been a popular seller?
As for me I don't find myself desperate to buy it.

Disappointing
I've purchased this book based on the rave reviews it's received on Amazon.com, both on this page and elsewhere. I've been greatly disappointed.

This is the eighth edition, and, as such, is low on error count, so if all you're looking for in a math textbook is that it be error-free, this may be the book for you.

If you are looking for a little more than that: say, an interesting, well-motivated and pedagogically sound lecture, you'd be better off looking for it elsewhere, for instance in Jones & Jones' superb "Elementary Number Theory".

"The Higher Arithmetic"'s style of writing is unstructured prose (as opposed to the Definition-Theorem-Proof structure), supposedly rendering the text less rigid and more "friendly", when, in fact, it accomplishes the exact opposite effect: You're never sure where a proof begins and where it ends. This compounds unnecessary intellectual and psychological strains on top of those already naturally present whenever one learns new material.

The unstructured-ness also makes this book quite useless as a work of reference.

The proofs aren't particularly elegant or insightful (in fact, they are quite difficult to follow in some cases, for no good reason).

There's very little in terms of historical background and in terms of interesting applications and recreations.

Finally, the book is uncannily devoid of that geeky sense of humor that embellishes the best of math textbooks (e.g. "in this sense, at least, the prime 2 is very odd!", Jones & Jones, 1998, p. 106).

This book can best be recommended to those who have already studied number theory, and would like a refresher of the main topics an introductory course is likely to include.

P.S.
This review is based on my impressions of the first three chapters (which constitute roughly one third of the book in terms of number of pages). I simply couldn't bear reading any further. I can't preclude the possibility that it gets better down the road.

Dated due to lack of material on modern encryption, still suitable for learning number theory
The higher arithmetic is more commonly known as number theory and is one of the most enjoyable and complex areas of mathematics. Simultaneously simple and hard, the problems are generally easy to understand yet can be horrendously difficult to solve. Furthermore, the initial areas of number theory are easy to comprehend; in general it only takes a basic knowledge of algebra to manage the main points.
In this book, Davenport takes you through the basics of number theory, starting with prime factorization and going through some simple Diophantine equations. The chapter titles are:

*) Factorization and the primes
*) Congruences
*) Quadratic residues
*) Continued fractions
*) Sums of squares
*) Quadratic forms
*) Some Diophantine equations

This book is a solid introduction to number theory and can be understood by the advanced high school student. The primary drawback for the modern reader is that there is no coverage of the use of number theory in modern encryption techniques.

Good book, but if you have the money, there are better
Well, this is definitely a very good introduction to number theory.The author provides clear, readable proofs of all the most basic theorems on topics such as congruences, sums of squares, etc.He explains things quite well.However, despite costing almost 2.5 times as much, I would recommend Hardy and Wright's book An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers more highly than Davenport's book.Seriously, although it may seem good that Davenport doesn't require a knowledge of calculus as a prerequisite for his book (which Hardy DOES require), one probably shouldn't learn number theory until one has a good backrground on topics ranging from improper integrals to infinite series.Because Davenport does not require calculus as a prerequisite, he neglects HUGE aspects of what could actually be considered BASIC number theory: namely, the basic analytic aspects (such as Tchebycheff's results on the Prime Number Theorem) and the additive theory (i.e. partitions and such, as well as the basics of the generalized theory surrounding Waring's problem for high powers of integers).So, my recommendation is, wait until you know integral calculus and the theory of infinite series BEFORE buying a book on number theory, and then buy Hardy and Wright's book rather than this one.

This is a MUST BUY if you want to learn Number Theory!
This book is an AMAZING introduction to the Theory of Numbers. It assumes no previous exposure to the subject, or any technical mathematical knowledge for that matter. Its prose is lucid and the style appealing.Davenport chose NOT to write a lemma-theorem-proof kind of book, and theresult is a marvelous, eminently readable introduction to the subject. Itswonderful to read a book where good prose is used to appropiatelysubstitute a massive collection of uninviting symbols. I've also beenreading other books on Number Theory, such as Hardy & Wright, but noneare as clear as this one.

I found the chapter on quadratic residues(which includes the reciprocity law) to be especially well written. Thesection on computers and number theory is excelent as well. A concise andcoherent discussion of crytography and the RSA system is included here.The organization of the book's chapters is fantastic. Each chapter buildsup on results proven in the previous ones, showing well the connectionsbetween the different aspects of Number Theory. The exercises of the bookrange from simple to challenging, but are all accesible to someone willingto put effort into them.

This would be an excelent source for learningnumber theory for mathematical competition purposes, such as the ASHME,AIME, USAMO, and even for the International Mathematical Olympiad. The bookcontains much more than what is needed for these competitions, but theolympiad/contest reader will benefit greatly from a study of Davenport'swork.

The book can certainly be used for an undergraduate course inNumber Theory, though it might need supplementary materials, to cover asemester's worth of work. I know the book has been used in the past inprevious editions as the main text for Math 124: Number Theory at HarvardUniversity.

I would also recommend this book to anyone interested inacquanting themselves with Number Theory.

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This proceedings volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on the algebraic and arithmetic theory of quadratic forms held in Talca (Chile).

The modern theory of quadratic forms has connections with a broad spectrum of mathematical areas including number theory, geometry, and K-theory. This volume contains survey and research articles covering the range of connections among these topics.

The survey articles bring readers up-to-date on research and open problems in representation theory of integral quadratic forms, the algebraic theory of finite square class fields, and developments in the theory of Witt groups of triangulated categories. The specialized articles present important developments in both the algebraic and arithmetic theory of quadratic forms, as well as connections to geometry and K-theory.

The volume is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in various aspects of the theory of quadratic forms. ... Read more

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This book covers the basic topics in arithmetic and algebra with which every college student should be thoroughly familiar. It is written with the student in mind, in a style and at a level appropriate for student understanding. ... Read more