Description
Book SynopsisThe new edition of this thorough examination of the distribution of prime numbers in arithmetic progressions offers many revisions and corrections as well as a new section recounting recent works in the field.
Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the third edition:
"The book under review is one of the most important references in the multiplicative number theory, as its title mentions exactly. … Davenport’s book covers most of the important topics in the theory of distribution of primes and leads the reader to serious research topics … . is very well written. … is useful for graduate students, researchers and for professors. It is a very good text source specially for graduate levels, but even is fruitful for undergraduates." (Mehdi Hassani, MathDL, July, 2008)
Table of ContentsFrom the contents: Primes in Arithmetic Progression.- Gauss' Sum.- Cyclotomy.- Primes in Arithmetic Progression: The General Modulus.- Primitive Characters.- Dirichlet's Class Number Formula.- The Distribution of the Primes.- Riemann's Memoir.- The Functional Equation of the L Function.- Properties of the Gamma Function.- Integral Functions of Order 1.- The Infinite Products for xi(s) and xi(s,Zero-Free Region for zeta(s).- Zero-Free Regions for L(s, chi).- The Number
N(
T).- The Number
N(
T, chi).- The explicit Formula for psi(x).- The Prime Number Theorem.- The Explicit Formula for psi(x,chi).- The Prime Number Theorem for Arithmetic Progressions (I).- Siegel's Theorem.- The Prime Number Theorem for Arithmetic Progressions (II).- The Pólya-Vinogradov Inequality.- Further Prime Number Sums.
