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The theory of numbers is that branch of mathematics which deals with properties of the whole numbers,
also called the counting numbers, or positive integers.
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Apostol, T.M. (1976). Historical Introduction. In: Introduction to Analytic Number Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-28579-4_1
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