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What are the prerequisites for Dirichlet & Dedekind's Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie? There is an English translation of this book: P. G. Lejeune Dirichlet, R. Dedekind translated by John Stillwell: Lectures on Number Theory, 1999

Makoto Kato
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Not much at all. In fact, you can probably get by with a working knowledge of high school algebra. This is a accessible work, aimed at a general mathematical audience.

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  • The book will also apparently answer your questions on Math.SE. – Matt Jul 28 '13 at 17:56
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    For the proof of the theorem on primes in arithmetic progression, you will certainly need some calculus, and complex numbers for Dirichlet characters. –  Jul 28 '13 at 18:34
  • @Matt Then I wonder why most of my questions concerning integral binary quadratic forms are unanswered.

    http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/192217/bijection-between-an-ideal-class-group-and-a-set-of-classes-of-binary-quadratic

     – Makoto Kato Jul 28 '13 at 22:31