Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

The book is a collection of algorithms without a central logical thought. It would be more helpful if an effort was made to justify some of the developments from the mathematical point of view.

Don't be fooled: This is a book written by experts, for professionals. The introductory chapters "cover" the mathematical preliminaries, but if you're not already familiar with the concepts, you won't get enough help there to be able to digest the real content of the book, which is very detailed, and looks to be very complete.

When I first opened this book, a tear fell from my eye. Never in my life have I seen such mathematical beauty as summarized from this book.