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I went through this thread on this question asking about a text on number theory, but my question is slightly different.

I was looking for a short and sweet book on elementary number theory. I don't need it to be a definitive treatise on number theory. I just need to have book which covers enough material to advance to algebraic number theory. I have looked at the books by Niven-Zuckerman-Montgomery and the Jones' and the one by Burton. All of them were very readable and I would like to read at least one of them at some point. For now, I would just like a book (say 100 pages long) which can get me acquainted with most of the material needed for algebraic number theory. Basically there is a course on algebraic number theory that I wish to take which begins in a month's time and I have not done enough elementary number theory.

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    Alan Baker "A concise introduction to the theory of numbers" fits your criteria. It is small, and I found it readable, but I haven't really studied any other books on number theory, so I don't know how it compares.2010-11-25

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