What are 'number theory for idiots' resources?

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what kind of number theory are we talking about? elementary (baby's first modular arithmetic), algebraic (rings of integers etc.), analytic?

>>8492470
Baby's first exposure to number theory. I assume the one in your pic is good for baby's first exposure?

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>>8492475
i don't know what your background is but i could recommend my own very first exposure which was Hungerford's 'Abstract Algebra: An Introduction', obviously it goes from an algebraic point of view but it basically starts with a chapter with the integers, does some modular arithmetic, goes onto the rationals and more general fields

'An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers' by Niven/Zuckerman/Montgomery goes further and is more purely number theoretic

Weil's definition of 'Basic' might be different than most people's

>>8492489
I need to learn Abstract Algebra anyway. Is this a good book assuming 0 knowledge in groups, rings, fields etc i.e. a good 1st book in algebra too? I really want a textbook that assumes a beginner reader. I'm tired of reading books like >>8492470 with the word 'basic' in their title and being utterly lost in chapter 1. It pisses me off. I want to learn this shit not pick up an advance book and feel like a retard.

>>8492493
> Is this a good book assuming 0 knowledge in groups, rings, fields etc i.e. a good 1st book in algebra too?
it worked for me, tons of questions (i think even with their difficulty labeled), goes through the division algorithm, prime factorization, congruences, chinese remainder theorem, basic polynomial rings, etc. all stuff you need to know

i think even most 1st year grad students wouldn't be able to read Basic Number Theory

>>8492498
ok cool thanks.

>>8492463
Read a book on proofs first