Serre, Jean-Pierre. A Course in Arithmetic (Kurs arifmetiki). 1972. First Russian edition.

Серр, Жан-Пьер. Курс арифметики / перевод с французского А. И. Скопина ; под редакцией А. В. Малышева ; редактор Г. М. Ильичева ; художник И. Я. Вовк.
Москва : издательство «Мир», 1972. 184 страницы ; обычный формат.
Мягкая издательская обложка.
Состояние хорошее: небольшие заломы и потёртости уголков передней крышки; на задней крышке поверхностные потёртости и царапины; на последнем чистом листе блока надорван уголок.
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Serre, Jean-Pierre. A Course in Arithmetic / translated from the French by A. I. Skopin ; edited by A. V. Malyshev ; editor G. M. Ilyicheva ; artist I. Ya. Vovk. Sole Russian translation.
Moscow : "Mir" Publishing House, 1972. 184 pp. ; standard format.
Paper wrappers.
Condition good: small creases and wear to the corners of the front cover; surface rubbing and scratches to the rear cover; the final blank leaf has a torn corner.

The sole Russian translation of Jean-Pierre Serre's celebrated graduate textbook on number theory, based on two courses of lectures Serre delivered to second-year students at the École Normale Supérieure. Serre, later awarded both the Fields Medal (1954) and the Abel Prize (2003), was already recognised in the Soviet Union through several earlier Mir translations of his work, including Galois Cohomology, Lie Algebras and Lie Groups, and Linear Representations of Finite Groups, all noted in the translator's preface as having earned high regard among Soviet mathematicians. This text develops the theory of finite fields, p-adic numbers, local quadratic forms, elements of Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions via L-series, and the theory of modular forms with Hecke operators and theta functions, and is compared by the Russian editor to the standard Soviet reference by Borevich and Shafarevich while noted as differing significantly in the selection and treatment of material. The book remains, over half a century later, one of the most widely used graduate introductions to number theory internationally, and this Soviet translation is a notable artifact of the reception of Serre's work in the USSR at the height of his influence on modern algebraic number theory.