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Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century : From PNT to FLT, PDF eBook

Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century : From PNT to FLT PDF

Part of the Springer Monographs in Mathematics series

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The last one hundred years have seen many important achievements in the classical part of number theory.

After the proof of the Prime Number Theorem in 1896, a quick development of analytical tools led to the invention of various new methods, like Brun's sieve method and the circle method of Hardy, Littlewood and Ramanujan; developments in topics such as prime and additive number theory, and the solution of Fermat's problem.

Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century: From PNT to FLT offers a short survey of 20th century developments in classical number theory, documenting between the proof of the Prime Number Theorem and the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

The focus lays upon the part of number theory that deals with properties of integers and rational numbers.

Chapters are divided into five time periods, which are then further divided into subject areas.

With the introduction of each new topic, developments are followed through to the present day. This book will appeal to graduate researchers and student in number theory, however the presentation of main results without technicalities will make this accessible to anyone with an interest in the area.

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