Simply excellent. For someone such as myself who is mathematically-inclined but never had exposure to a number theory course, this book offers a perfect balance of accessibility and depth. The organization of the material has clearly been carefully thought-out so as to inflict minimal pain on newcomers like me. The practice problems are numerous, varied, interesting, and span a fairly broad range of difficulty, meaning you can push yourself to *really* absorb the material if you like.
Perhaps, above all else, what this book offers -- or at least what I have found myself experiencing as each chapter unfolds -- is a glimpse at the beauty of number theory. The book has turned something that I once thought to be an abstract, toy-problem-ish area of mathematics into a genuine joy as I come to understand more and more this strange, oft-baffling, occasionally outright-magical branch of math. It is, dare I say, quite a fun read :)
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