An Invitation to Modern Number Theory

by Steven J. Miller and Ramin Takloo-Bighash

Book Overview

In a manner accessible to beginning undergraduates, An Invitation to Modern Number Theory introduces many of the central problems, conjectures, results, and techniques of the field, such as the Riemann Hypothesis, Roth's Theorem, the Circle Method, and Random Matrix Theory. Showing how experiments are used to test conjectures and prove theorems, the book allows students to do original work on such problems, often using little more than calculus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691120609
• ISBN13: 9780691120607
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"