This book gives a problem-solving approach to the difficult subject of analytic number theory. It is primarily aimed at graduate students and senior undergraduates. The goal is to provide a rapid introduction to analytic methods and the ways in which they are used to study the distribution of prime numbers. The book also includes an introduction to p-adic analytic methods. It is ideal for a first course in analytic number theory.
Table of contents:
Arithmetic Functions.- Primes in Arithmetic Progressions.- The Prime Number Theorem.- The Method of Contour Integration.- Functional Equations.- Hadamard Products.- Explicit Formulas.- The Selberg Class.- Sieve Methods.- p-adic Methods.- References.
Table of contents:
Arithmetic Functions.- Primes in Arithmetic Progressions.- The Prime Number Theorem.- The Method of Contour Integration.- Functional Equations.- Hadamard Products.- Explicit Formulas.- The Selberg Class.- Sieve Methods.- p-adic Methods.- References.
"The reviewer strongly approves of the problem-based approach to learning, and recommends this book to any student of analytic number theory."
MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
M.R. Murty Problems in Analytic Number Theory "The reviewer strongly approves of the problem-based approach to learning, and recommends this book to any student of analytic number theory." -MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS From the reviews of the second edition: "The second edition of the book has eleven chapters ... . the book can be used both as a problem book (as its title shows) and also as a textbook (as the series in which the book is published shows). ... is ideal as a text for a first course in analytic number theory, either at the senior undergraduate or the graduate level. ... I believe that this book will be very useful for students, researchers and professors. It is well written ... ." (Mehdi Hassani, MathDL, April, 2008)