pAn update of the most accessible introductory number theory text available, bFundamental Number Theory with Applications, Second Editionb presents a mathematically rigorous yet easy-to-follow treatment of the fundamentals and applications of the subject. The substantial amount of reorganizing makes this edition clearer and more elementary in its coverage.ppbNew to the Second Editionb pp- Removal of all advanced material to be even more accessible in scope pp- New fundamental material, including partition theory, generating functions, and combinatorial number theory pp- Expanded coverage of random number generation, Diophantine analysis, and additive number theory pp- More applications to cryptography, primality testing, and factoring pp- An appendix on the recently discovered unconditional deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for primality testing ppTaking a truly elementary approach to number theory, this text supplies the essential material for a first course on the subject. Plac