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Approximately Calculus by Shahriar Shahriari Publisher Comments Is there always a prime number between $n$ and $2n$? Where, approximately, is the millionth prime? And just what does calculus have to do with answering either of these questions? It turns out that calculus has a lot to do with both questions, as this... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $44.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Publications of the Mathematical Society of Japan #11: Introduction to Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions by Goro Shimura Publisher Comments The theory of automorphic forms is playing increasingly important roles in several branches of mathematics, even in physics, and is almost ubiquitous in number theory. This book introduces the reader to the subject and in particular to elliptic modular... (read more) Your price: $85.50 New - Trade Paper
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Introduction To the Theory of Numbers (5TH 91 Edition) by Ivan Niven Publisher Comments The Fifth Edition of one of the standard works on number theory, written by internationally-recognized mathematicians. Chapters are relatively self-contained for greater flexibility. New features include expanded treatment of the binomial theorem... (read more) List Price $170.00 Your price: $137.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Course in Algebraic Number Theory by Robert B Ash Publisher Comments This text for a graduate-level course covers the general theory of factorization of ideals in Dedekind domains as well as the number field case. It illustrates the use of Kummer's theorem, proofs of the Dirichlet unit theorem, and Minkowski bounds... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Intro Sieve Methods Applications by Alina Cojocaru Publisher Comments Sieve theory has a rich and romantic history. The ancient question of whether there exist infinitely many twin primes (primes p such that p+2 is also prime), and Goldbach's conjecture that every even number can be written as the sum of two prime numbers,... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $45.24 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Invitation to the Mathematics of Fermat-Wiles by Yves Hellegouarch Publisher Comments upérieure in Paris. He has been teaching at the University of Caen since 1970. In 1972 he wrote a thesis on "Elliptic curves and Fermat's equation".... (read more) Your price: $79.95 New - Hardcover
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The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus Du Sautoy Publisher Comments In 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy that would forever change the history of mathematics. The subject was the mystery of prime numbers. At the heart of the presentation was an idea that Riemann had not... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Theory of Algebraic Number Fields by David Hilbert Publisher Comments This book is an English translation of Hilbert's Zahlbericht, the monumental report on the theory of algebraic number field which he composed for the German Mathematical Society. In this magisterial work Hilbert provides a unified account of the... (read more) Your price: $136.95 New - Hardcover
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An Adventurer's Guide to Number Theory by Richard Friedberg Publisher Comments This witty introduction to number theory deals with the properties of numbers and numbers as abstract concepts. Topics include primes, divisibility, quadratic forms, related theorems, explored in imaginative chapters such as "Seven jogged my elbow," ... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Number Theory 2 by K. Kato Book News Annotation Kato (U. of Chicago), Kurokawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology), and Saito (U. of Tokyo) explore similarities between algebraic number fields and algebraic function fields in one variable over finite fields, explain adele rings and idele groups, derive... (read more) Your price: $67.25 New - Trade Paper
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Transcendental Number Theory by Alan Baker Publisher Comments First published in 1975, this classic book gives a systematic account of transcendental number theory, that is those numbers which cannot be expressed as the roots of algebraic equations having rational coefficients. Their study has developed into a... (read more) Your price: $52.50 New - Trade Paper
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P Adic Numbers P Adic Analysis Zeta 2ND Edition by Neal Koblitz Publisher Comments The first edition of this work has become the standard introduction to the theory of p-adic numbers at both the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level. This second edition includes a deeper treatment of p-adic functions in Ch. 4 to include... (read more) Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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Graduate Texts in Mathematics #84: A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory by Kenneth F. Ireland Publisher Comments This well-developed, accessible text details the historical development of the subject throughout. It also provides wide-ranging coverage of significant results with comparatively elementary proofs, some of them new. This second edition contains two new... (read more) Your price: $109.75 New - Hardcover
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The Theory of Partitions (Cambridge Mathematical Library) by George E. Andrews Publisher Comments Discusses mathematics related to partitions of numbers into sums of positive integers.... (read more) Your price: $66.25 New - Trade Paper
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Tauberian Theory by Jacob Korevaar Publisher Comments Tauberian theory compares summability methods for series and integrals, helps to decide when there is convergence, and provides asymptotic and remainder estimates. The author shows the development of the theory from the beginning and his expert... (read more) List Price $153.95 Your price: $75.00 Used - Hardcover
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Factorization and primality testing by David M. Bressoud Publisher Comments "This book focuses on a single problem: how to factor a large integer or prove its prime. From the Sieve of Eratosthenes of ancient Greece to the Multiple Polynomial Quadratic Sieve and the Elliptic Curve Methods discovered in the past few years, this... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
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One To Nine (10 Edition) by Hodges Publisher Comments What Lynn Truss did for grammar in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Andrew Hodges has done for mathematics. In One to Nine, Hodges, one of Britain's leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Graduate Texts in Mathematics #41: Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory by Tom M. Apostol Publisher Comments A new edition of a classical treatment of elliptic and modular functions with some of their number-theoretic applications, this text offers an updated bibliography and an alternative treatment of the transformation formula for the Dedekind eta function... (read more) Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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Annals of Mathematics Studies #147: Euler Systems. (Am-147) by Karl Rubin Publisher Comments One of the most exciting new subjects in Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry is the theory of Euler systems. Euler systems are special collections of cohomology classes attached to p-adic Galois representations. Introduced by Victor... (read more) Your price: $79.75 New - Trade Paper
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L-Functions in Arithmetic by J. Coates Publisher Comments This volume will be of lasting value to students and researchers working in this area.... (read more) Your price: $101.95 New - Trade Paper
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