What is the required reading before I can read this book?

basic group + ring + field theory/complex analysis

just open it up and you'll see lol

>>8973400
Phenomenology of the Spirit and competency in Non-philosophy are the bare minimum

Don't book usually sum up in the introductory chapter the thing you're supposed to know? If so then just get books from areas they mention and you should be golden.

>>8973400
Never too late to learn! Good for you!

>>8973400
Usually in the preface they state what they assume you should know and what would be useful knowing.

>>8973400
>http://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/a-course-in-arithmetic
>The book assumes you already have a good working knowledge of fields, rings, groups, modules, and linear algebra. It uses everyday results from these fields with no explanation. This produces very short proofs and developments. For example, all the essentials of p-adic numbers are worked out in 8 pages. The proofs are short not because they leave out a lot of steps, but because they assume you already know a lot of background (historically a lot of these number theory topics were raw material for the more abstract algebraic theories).
>Bottom line: this book will expand your horizons, but you should already have a good knowledge of algebra and of classical number theory before you begin.

>>8973400
lol like kindergarden math idk faggot i do know how to multiply and divide
u should get some algebra instead like Gelfand desu

>>8973400

>GRADUATE text in mathematics

Come on op... They put that up there for a reason.

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>>8974426

>>8974567

Whats your point brainletto?

>>8974426
Actually a decent amount of the time even for more advanced texts you need "mathematical maturity" more so than a bunch of prerequisites.