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Title: Spare yourself the pain
Review: This book starts off alright, but then it takes you on a ride through hell. Some of the chapters lack examples. The authors will ramble on about the theory and give you one example that is irrelevant to the exercises (usually an example that is extraordinarily easy). Then come the exercises, and if you get stuck, lo and behold, tough luck get another book or someone else to help you. While a few of the chapters are well written, there are other books in which ALL the chapters all written (like pollard and tenenbaum, which is also nearly 1/6 the price). All in all, I would not recommend this book to first-timers.
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