{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"RockPaperBitcoin wrote","author_name":"RockPaperBitcoin (npub1kq…ye5xu)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1kqrddzzl6xng2wn0n0eyyjnf6smwmtp8m5atetzjw7vqyngwrphs4ye5xu","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Yes.   It’s what I’d recommend to someone who’s never studied number theory before.  There’s a solutions manual which is also quite helpful and makes the book more useful.   Also love the biographies interspersed in the textbook.\n\nHad I had that exposure, I’d have gone straight to Abstract Algebra and then full in some of the less intuitive aspects of Number theory like primitive roots and quadratic residues"}