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Book SynopsisSeeks to describe the development in recent decades of sieve methods able to detect prime numbers. This work covers topics such as; primes in short intervals, the greatest prime factor of the sequence of shifted primes, Goldbach numbers in short intervals, the distribution of Gaussian primes, and the recent work of John Friedlander, and Iwaniec.
Trade Review"This book provides a very nice introduction to a very active and important area of research. Several chapters include discussion of the limitations of the given methods; this is an unusual feature but a very useful one to readers. There is also helpful discussion of historical developments of the given methods. This a valuable book, both for researchers and for advanced graduate students in analytic number theory."--S. W Graham, Mathematical Reviews "[T]his book contains a valuable compendium of methods and results, and it will be of interest to aficionados of prime number theory."--Harold G. Diamond, SIAM Review "The book is written in a very accessible style for a wide spectrum of readers... Besides mathematical ideas, the presentation also contains many important historical comments, which make the book useful for a general mathematical audience trying to orient themselves in the evolution of the main techniques applied in sieve methods."--EMS Newsletter
Table of ContentsPreface xi Notation xiii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. The Vaughan Identity 25 Chapter 3. The Alternative Sieve 47 Chapter 4. The Rosser-Iwaniec Sieve 65 Chapter 5. Developing the Alternative Sieve 83 Chapter 6. An Upper-Bound Sieve 103 Chapter 7. Primes in Short Intervals 119 Chapter 8. The Brun-Titchmarsh Theorem on Average 157 Chapter 9. Primes in Almost All Intervals 189 Chapter 10. Combination with the Vector Sieve 201 Chapter 11. Generalizing to Algebraic Number Fields 231 Chapter 12. Variations on Gaussian Primes 265 Chapter 13. Primes of the Form x3 + 2y3 303 Chapter 14. Epilogue 335 Appendix 337 Bibliography 349 Index 361
