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A Primer of Analytic Number Theory: From Pythagoras to Riemann

Book information

Year
2003
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2075643 bytes)
Pages
395\395
Library
mexmat
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

This undergraduate-level introduction describes those mathematical properties of prime numbers that can be deduced with the tools of calculus. Jeffrey Stopple pays special attention to the rich history of the subject and ancient questions on polygonal numbers, perfect numbers and amicable pairs, as well as to the important open problems. The culmination of the book is a brief presentation of the Riemann zeta function, which determines the distribution of prime numbers, and of the significance of the Riemann Hypothesis.

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