Surveys in Number Theory: Papers from the Millennial Conference on Number Theory

by Bruce Berndt (Editor), M.A. Bennett (Editor), N. Boston (Editor), H.G. Diamond (Editor), A.J. Hildebrand (Editor)

Overview

A selection of the most accessible survey papers from the Millennial Conference on Number Theory. Presented and compiled by a group of international experts, these papers provide a current view of the state of the art and an outlook into the future of number theory research. This book serves as an inspiration to graduate students and as a reference for research mathematicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568811628
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/20/2002
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Completeness Problems and the Riemann Hypothesis: An Annotated Bibliography/Michel Balazard — A Survey on Pure and Mixed Exponential Sums Modulo Prime Powers/Todd Cochrane and Zhiyong Zheng — One Hundred Years of Normal Numbers/Glyn Harman — On Theorems of Barban-Davenport-Halberstam Type/C. Hooley — Integer Points, Exponential Sums and the Riemann Zeta Function/?. N. Huxley — Recent Developments in Automorphic Forms and Applications/Wen-Ching Winnie Li — Convergence of Corresponding Continued Fractions/Lisa Lorentzen — On the Analytic Continuation of Various Multiple Zeta-Functions/Kohji Matsumoto — Quelques Remarques sur la Theorie d’lwasawa des Courbes Elliptiques/Bernadette Perrin-Riou — Computing Rational Points on Curves/Bjorn Poonen — G. H. Hardy As I Knew Him/Robert A. Rankin — Some Applications of Diophantine Approximation/R. Tijdeman — Waring’s Problem: A Survey/R. C. Vaughan and T. D. Wooley — Solving the Pell Equation/H C. Williams.

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"This collection gives an integrated picture on main streams in contemporary number theory. As such, it can be recommended to active number theorists and also to a general mathematical audience." -EMS Newsletter, December 2003

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"This collection gives an integrated picture on main streams in contemporary number theory. As such, it can be recommended to active number theorists and also to a general mathematical audience." -EMS Newsletter, December 2003

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