A Course of Pure Mathematics, G. H. Hardy

how relevent and helpful would it be to study "A Course of Pure Mathematics by G. H. Hardy" as an intro to pure maths for a person willing to study alevel math and further math (it is just easily avaliable to me). it is a classic text, part of cambridge mathematical library, famous for its rigour, by an amazing author and just happens to be an intro to pure math as well????????
here is its table of contents on amazon if u r unfamiliar with the text:
Table of Contents

Reply 1

DFranklin

It's a (first year+) university level book; I don't think it would be very accessible if you've not already done A-level maths.

For an even more misleading book title, see "A Course in Arithmetic" by Serre. This is really only suitable for postgraduates!

Reply 2

hermaphrodite

^^^ elaborate. what kinda material does Serre cover??

Reply 3

DFranklin

hermaphrodite

^^^ elaborate. what kinda material does Serre cover??

I don't actually have it, just seen someone asking some questions based on it.

From Amazon:

Serre's "A Course in Arithmetic" is a concentrated, modern introduction to basically three areas of number theory, quadratic forms, Dirichlet's density theorem, and modular forms.