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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.

Numbers, Prime. --- Number theory. --- Number study --- Numbers, Theory of --- Algebra --- Prime numbers --- Numbers, Natural

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This book seeks to describe the rapid development in recent decades of sieve methods able to detect prime numbers. The subject began with Eratosthenes in antiquity, took on new shape with Legendre's form of the sieve, was substantially reworked by Ivan M. Vinogradov and Yuri V. Linnik, but came into its own with Robert C. Vaughan and important contributions from others, notably Roger Heath-Brown and Henryk Iwaniec. Prime-Detecting Sieves breaks new ground by bringing together several different types of problems that have been tackled with modern sieve methods and by discussing the ideas common to each, in particular the use of Type I and Type II information. No other book has undertaken such a systematic treatment of prime-detecting sieves. Among the many topics Glyn Harman covers are 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 on primes that are a sum of a square and a fourth power, and Heath-Brown's work on primes represented as a cube plus twice a cube. This book contains much that is accessible to beginning graduate students, yet also provides insights that will benefit established researchers.

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Factorization (Mathematics) --- Numbers, Prime --- Factorisation --- Nombres premiers --- 511.1 --- #TELE:d.d. Prof. R. Govaerts --- Prime numbers --- Numbers, Natural --- Mathematics --- Elementary arithmetic --- 511.1 Elementary arithmetic

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Numbers, Prime --- #WBIB:dd.Lic.L.De Busschere --- 511.6 --- 511.6 Algebraic number fields --- Algebraic number fields --- Prime numbers --- Numbers, Natural

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In this volume we have endeavored to provide a middle ground-hopefully even a bridge-between "theory" and "experiment" in the matter of prime numbers. Of course, we speak of number theory and computer experiment. There are great books on the abstract properties of prime numbers. Each of us working in the field enjoys his or her favorite classics. But the experimental side is relatively new. Even though it can be forcefully put that computer science is by no means young, as there have arguably been four or five computer "revolutions" by now, it is the case that the theoretical underpinnings of prime numbers go back centuries, even millennia. So, we believe that there is room for treatises based on the celebrated classical ideas, yet authored from a modern computational perspective. Design and scope of this book The book combines the essentially complementary areas of expertise of the two authors. (One author (RC) is more the computationalist, the other (CP) more the theorist. ) The opening chapters are in a theoretical vein, even though some explicit algorithms are laid out therein, while heavier algorithmic concentration is evident as the reader moves well into the book. Whether in theoretical or computational writing mode, we have tried to provide the most up-to-date aspects of prime-number study. What we do not do is sound the very bottom of every aspect.

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