Manfred Schroeder (1926–2009)

I have fallen in and out of love with this book. Great if you want a very brief introduction to number theory. Not so awesome if you want to understand it. Manfred Schroeder does a lot of handwaving and "I'll leave the proof to the reader"s, which is terrifying for somebody trying to learn basic concepts. Also, he uses a lot of different conventions and naming schemes than others, so it makes it difficult to find other information about certain topics elsewhere. That said, I haven't found show more other number theory books that cover basic concepts without going into incredible mathematical detail. show less

Schroeder is great at taking number theory and making it accessible to people who aren't math majors. This book covers a lot of interesting topics related to fractals and self-similarity without delving too deep into rigorous mathematical proofs.

Lovely math book that reviews across many fragments how certain phenomena, and mathematical questions relate to chaos, fractals and power laws.

What is frustrating is that inevitably you will find yoir favourites and be annoyed that the author only dedicated 3 pages to the problem you really care about.

A little too diverse and fragmented... but a fun math book.

A very accessible book on number theory and its applications. Anyone with a reasonable amount of university/college math will find it very readable. Schroeder never spends too much time on any one idea, which allows the book to move along quickly. There are not too many proofs, rather he uses equation development to illustrate concrete results, concepts, or as fodder for later discussions. I always enjoy returning to this book.