Overview
- Challenges students ranging from high school to graduate levels to develop problem-solving skills in analytic number theory
- Balances elementary yet ingenious problems with applications not usually seen in classes
- Suitable as a rich supplementary text in Analytic Number Theory for undergraduate and graduate courses
Part of the book series: Problem Books in Mathematics (PBM)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This problem book gathers together 15 problem sets on analytic number theory that can be profitably approached by anyone from advanced high school students to those pursuing graduate studies. It emerged from a 5-week course taught by the first author as part of the 2019 Ross/Asia Mathematics Program held from July 7 to August 9 in Zhenjiang, China.
While it is recommended that the reader has a solid background in mathematical problem solving (as from training for mathematical contests), no possession of advanced subject-matter knowledge is assumed. Most of the solutions require nothing more than elementary number theory and a good grasp of calculus. Problems touch at key topics like the value-distribution of arithmetic functions, the distribution of prime numbers, the distribution of squares and nonsquares modulo a prime number, Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions, and more.
This book is suitable for any student with a special interest indeveloping problem-solving skills in analytic number theory. It will be an invaluable aid to lecturers and students as a supplementary text for introductory Analytic Number Theory courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Reviews
“This book is much more advanced and makes heavy use of complex analysis. … This is an excellent and probably unique introduction to the use of continuous methods in the discrete world of number theory, and accessible to a wide mathematical audience.” (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, June 20, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Akash Singha Roy is an undergraduate student at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Steps into Analytic Number Theory
Book Subtitle: A Problem-Based Introduction
Authors: Paul Pollack, Akash Singha Roy
Series Title: Problem Books in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65077-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65076-6Published: 09 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65079-7Published: 10 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65077-3Published: 08 February 2021
Series ISSN: 0941-3502
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8506
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Number Theory, Mathematics Education