WOW! I realy thought no one would answer my cry for help. I just pray that my english Libraries will stock said books but even if they don't I will hunt them down. So a huge thankyou to Tim Deveaux, Chris Maunder, Ivan Wooton, Stuart van Weele and Jonathan Gilligan for taking the time to help (and correct some terminological mistakes!) P.S. I would be grateful for any more "Number Theory For 14 Year Olds" books and web sites etc. P.P.S. I recently stumbled across a site covering quantam computation - www.qubit.org - very exciting prospect. Would this be the only practical way of tackling rsa based ciphers? Take a look at it, it has documents and explanations on the subject for those of us with no more than a secondary school knoledge of physics up to quantum mechanic phD level. P.P.P.S. Yes LIAM O'HAGAN you do have too much time on your hands, if you are getting kicks from posting alcohol recipes on an underage's discussion thread - which is about number theory!

Hello, I am a 14 year old pupil that has been serching for a way to get the complete basics of the theory of numbers, and I mean the COMPLETE BASICS; something that I can progress from. When I first encountered number theory I immediately needed more but when I proceeded to the local library I was confounded by a series unknown algebriac symbols even in a book entitled 'The Basics of Number Theory'. I came here presuming that a site devoted to the latest cryptography (a topic that is now extremly dependant upon mathmatics instead of linguistics) would contain some number theorists or at least someone with a backround in number theory. Please, if there is tell me - is there a backdoor way into simple number theory or am I doomed to wait another four years untill I go to university. Any in formation would be much appreciated. From a budding pure mathmatician in need of help