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The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution
Gérald Tenenbaum and Michel Mendès France
Price
1320.00
ISBN
9781470419172
Language
English
Pages
136
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2014
Series
American Mathematical Society
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Universities Press
Catalogues
Mathematics
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
Gérald Tenenbaum, Michel Mendès France
Translated by Philip G. Spain
Preface to the English Edition ix
Preface to the French Edition xi
Notation and conventions xvii
Chapter 1. Genesis: From Euclid to Chebyshev 1
0. Introduction 1
1. Canonical decomposition 4
2. Congruences 5
3. Cryptographic intermezzo: public key systems 8
4. Quadratic residues 11
5. Return to the infinitude of the set of primes 12
6. The sieve of Eratosthenes 14
7. The Chebyshev theorems 16
8. Mertens’ theorems 21
9. Brun’s sieve and the twin prime conjecture 25
Chapter 2. The Riemann Zeta Function 29
0. Introduction 29
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viii Contents
1. Euler’s product 30
2. Analytic continuation 32
3. The line s = 1 and the prime number theorem 38
4. The Riemann hypothesis 42
5. Arithmetic consequences of information on the zeros 46
Chapter 3. Stochastic Distribution of Prime Numbers 51
0. Introduction 51
1. Arithmetic progressions 52
2. Cram´er’s model 61
3. Uniform distribution modulo one 67
4. Geometric vision 72
Chapter 4. An Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem 77
0. Introduction 77
1. Integration by parts 80
2. Convolution of arithmetic functions 81
3. The M¨obius function 85
4. The mean value of the M¨obius function and the prime number theorem 88
5. Integers free of large, or small, prime factors 92
6. Dickman’s function 96
7. Daboussi’s proof, revisited 99
Chapter 5. The Major Conjectures 105
Further reading 113