Mathematics / General, MATHEMATICS / Number Theory, Number theory, Numbers, Theory Of
This book is a lively account of lectures given by H. Rademacher at Standford University in 1947. It deals with several topics in elementary number theory; namely, prime numbers, Farey fractions, decimal fractions, approximation of irraional numbers by rationals, the exclusion-inclusion principle, Ford circles, the modular group and modular functions, and linkages.