[thrwthrw93223]

I’m apprecticative of the amount of work and effort you put into the book. Please consider the self-learner and those that don’t have access to solutions, a classmate, a TA, or a professor.

I know you probably don’t want to expose solutions to the exercises so they can be used in a classroom, but for people like me, I don’t want to create an online discussion to every problem I attempt just to check my work.

I prefer to read textbooks that have solutions, so I can know for sure my answers are correct.

I don’t really buy the “you know when your solutions are correct”. The beginner can easily fool themself into thinking their solutions are correct, when they aren’t.

Due to that, I won’t be buying your book.

[martyweissman]

That's cool -- you might like Underwood Dudley's book on Elementary Number Theory. It has a similar set of topics, and I think it has more exercises and contains some solutions. And it's inexpensive!

[thrwthrw93223]

Thanks! I’ll check that out.

[salimmadjd]

>Due to that, I won’t be buying your book.

I'm on the same boat as you. I might still buy this book, it seems beautiful.

In the days of online autodidactic zeitgeists, it's a shame not to include the solutions. I understand the author wants to monetize his hard work and ensure it'll make money as a textbook and I believe textbooks can provide some income as long as they become the mainstay of a particular subjects.

That being said, I wonder if there is a future option for creating a problem/solution booklet exclusive for the teachers and opening up the solutions to this book so the entire world could possibly learn from this book.

[martyweissman]

Yes -- that is a future option. It's a time commitment, but perhaps next summer I'll post a new section on the book webpage with more exercises and solutions to existing ones. (Those who have taught with the book asked for more problems too.)