<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>RockPaperBitcoin wrote</title><author_name>RockPaperBitcoin (npub1kq…ye5xu)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1kqrddzzl6xng2wn0n0eyyjnf6smwmtp8m5atetzjw7vqyngwrphs4ye5xu</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><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.&#xA;&#xA;Had 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</html></oembed>