Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 552 pages)
ISBN:
9780521849036
,
9781107405820
,
9780511618314
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics 97
Content:
Prime numbers are the multiplicative building blocks of natural numbers. Understanding their overall influence and especially their distribution gives rise to central questions in mathematics and physics. In particular their finer distribution is closely connected with the Riemann hypothesis, the most important unsolved problem in the mathematical world. Assuming only subjects covered in a standard degree in mathematics, the authors comprehensively cover all the topics met in first courses on multiplicative number theory and the distribution of prime numbers. They bring their extensive and distinguished research expertise to bear in preparing the student for intelligent reading of the more advanced research literature. This 2006 text, which is based on courses taught successfully over many years at Michigan, Imperial College and Pennsylvania State, is enriched by comprehensive historical notes and references as well as over 500 exercises.
Content:
Dirichlet series I -- The elementary theory of arithmetic functions -- Principles and first examples of sieve methods -- Primes in arithmetic progressions I -- Dirichlet series II -- The prime number theorem -- Applications of the prime number theorem -- Further discussion of the prime number theorem -- Primitive characters and Gauss sums -- Analytic properties of the zeta function and L-functions -- Primes in arithmetic progressions II -- Explicit formulae -- Conditional estimates -- Zeros -- Oscillations of error terms -- Appendices. A. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral; B. Bernoulli numbers and the Euler-MacLaurin summation formula; C. The gamma function; D. Topics in harmonic analysis
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521849036
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107405820
Additional Edition:
Montgomery, Hugh L. Multiplicative number theory ; 1: Classical theory Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007 ISBN 0521849039
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521849036
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521849036
Language:
English
Subjects:
Mathematics
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511618314
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