Essays in Classical Number Theory

Auteur
Yoichi Motohashi is a mathematician and foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He received his D.Sc from the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Lectures on sieve methods and prime number theory (1983), Spectral theory of the Riemann zeta-function (Cambridge, 1997) and the editor of Analytic Number Theory (Cambridge, 1997).

Texte du rabat

This comprehensive introduction to number theory will reward students and researchers with its insight and thoroughness. Suitable for course use and self-study, it avoids unnecessary abstraction and provides a wealth of thought-provoking examples and problems. The history of the birth of analytic and algebraic number theory is woven throughout.

Contenu

Preface; For readers; Table of theorems; 1. Divisibility; 2. Congruences; 3. Characters; 4. Quadratic forms; 5. Distribution of prime numbers; Bibliography; Index.