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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.
List 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.
Summary
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.
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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
