Prime-Detecting Sieves (Lms-33)

by Glyn Harman

Book Overview

This book seeks to describe the rapid development in recent decades of sieve methods able to detect prime numbers. The subject began with Eratosthenes in antiquity, took on new shape with Legendre's form of the sieve, was substantially reworked by Ivan M. Vinogradov and Yuri V. Linnik, but came into its own with Robert C. Vaughan and important contributions from others, notably Roger Heath-Brown and Henryk Iwaniec. Prime-Detecting Sieves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069112437X
• ISBN13: 9780691124377
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"