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| Dec 29, 2012 at 23:37 | comment | added | Joe Silverman | @ayanta: Well, the new chapter on elliptic curves was written with an eye towards fitting into the style of the rest of the text. (An assertion that I feel that I'm entitled to state as a fact, rather than as an opinion.) So I guess there might be some who would say that the elliptic curves chapter is also "outdated", despite having been written quite recently! But I have to respectively disagree with your opinion of the book, which I feel is a masterpiece. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 22:30 | comment | added | user30180 | With all due respect, and despite the delightful discussion of some classical topics, this book falls into the "outdated" category in its discussion of virtually anything related to the algebraic side of number theory (setting aside whatever material has been added about elliptic curves in the most recent edition, or perhaps commentary elsewhere in that edition; I have not seen it). As a student years ago, I found it an unpleasant book to read on any "algebraic" topic. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 8:54 | comment | added | Denis Serre | I remember having read H&W from scratch, a long time ago. Amazingly, E. M. Wright passed away quite recently, in 2005, thus 58 years after G. H. Hardy. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 5:49 | history | answered | Anthony Quas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |