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Book SynopsisPrime 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 this 2006 text, the authors bring their extensive and distinguished research expertise to prepare the student for intelligent reading of the more advanced research literature.
Trade Review'The text is very well written and accessible to students. On many occasions the authors explicitly describe basic methods known to everyone working in the field, but too often skipped in textbooks. This book may well become the standard introduction to analytic number theory.' Zentralblatt MATH
Table of ContentsPreface; Notation; 1. Dirichlet series-I; 2. The elementary theory of arithmetic functions; 3. Principles and first examples of sieve methods; 4. Primes in arithmetic progressions-I; 5. Dirichlet series-II; 6. The prime number theorem; 7. Applications of the prime number theorem; 8. Further discussion of the prime number theorem; 9. Primitive characters and Gauss sums; 10. Analytic properties of the zeta function and L-functions; 11. Primes in arithmetic progressions-II; 12. Explicit formulae; 13. Conditional estimates; 14. Zeros; 15. Oscillations of error terms; Appendix A. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral; Appendix B. Bernoulli numbers and the Euler-MacLaurin summation formula; Appendix C. The gamma function; Appendix D. Topics in harmonic analysis.
