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Additive Number Theory The Classical Bases

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Melvyn B. Nathanson

    1. Department of Mathematics, Lehman College of the City University of New York, Bronx, USA

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Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM, volume 164)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Waring’s problem

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Sums of polygons

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      Pages 3-36

    3. Waring’s problem for cubes

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      Pages 37-74

    4. The Hilbert-Waring theorem

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      Pages 75-95

    5. Weyl’s inequality

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      Pages 97-119

    6. The Hardy—Littlewood asymptotic formula

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      Pages 121-148

  3. The Goldbach conjecture

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      Pages 149-149
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    2. Elementary estimates for primes

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      Pages 151-175

    3. The Shnirel’man-Goldbach theorem

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      Pages 177-209

    4. Sums of three primes

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      Pages 211-230

    5. The linear sieve

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      Pages 231-270

    6. Chen’s theorem

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      Pages 271-298

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 299-344
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About this book

[Hilbert's] style has not the terseness of many of our modem authors in mathematics, which is based on the assumption that printer's labor and paper are costly but the reader's effort and time are not. H. Weyl [143] The purpose of this book is to describe the classical problems in additive number theory and to introduce the circle method and the sieve method, which are the basic analytical and combinatorial tools used to attack these problems. This book is intended for students who want to lel?Ill additive number theory, not for experts who already know it. For this reason, proofs include many "unnecessary" and "obvious" steps; this is by design. The archetypical theorem in additive number theory is due to Lagrange: Every nonnegative integer is the sum of four squares. In general, the set A of nonnegative integers is called an additive basis of order h if every nonnegative integer can be written as the sum of h not necessarily distinct elements of A. Lagrange 's theorem is the statement that the squares are a basis of order four. The set A is called a basis offinite order if A is a basis of order h for some positive integer h. Additive number theory is in large part the study of bases of finite order. The classical bases are the squares, cubes, and higher powers; the polygonal numbers; and the prime numbers. The classical questions associated with these bases are Waring's problem and the Goldbach conjecture.

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“This book provides a very thorough exposition of work to date on two classical problems in additive number theory … . is aimed at students who have some background in number theory and a strong background in real analysis. A novel feature of the book, and one that makes it very easy to read, is that all the calculations are written out in full – there are no steps ‘left to the reader’. … The book also includes a large number of exercises … .” (Allen Stenger, The Mathematical Association of America, August, 2010)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, Lehman College of the City University of New York, Bronx, USA

    Melvyn B. Nathanson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Additive Number Theory The Classical Bases

  • Authors: Melvyn B. Nathanson

  • Series Title: Graduate Texts in Mathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3845-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94656-6Published: 25 June 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2848-1Published: 19 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3845-2Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0072-5285

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-5612

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 342

  • Topics: Number Theory, Analysis

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