Prime-detecting sieves
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Prime-detecting sieves
（London Mathematical Society monograph series, v. 33）
Princeton University Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-359) and index
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Description
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 breaks new ground by bringing together several different types of problems that have been tackled with modern sieve methods and by discussing the ideas common to each, in particular the use of Type I and Type II information. No other book has undertaken such a systematic treatment of prime-detecting sieves. Among the many topics Glyn Harman covers are primes in short intervals, the greatest prime factor of the sequence of shifted primes, Goldbach numbers in short intervals, the distribution of Gaussian primes, and the recent work of John Friedlander and Iwaniec on primes that are a sum of a square and a fourth power, and Heath-Brown's work on primes represented as a cube plus twice a cube.
This book contains much that is accessible to beginning graduate students, yet also provides insights that will benefit established researchers.
Table of Contents
Preface xi Notation xiii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. The Vaughan Identity 25 Chapter 3. The Alternative Sieve 47 Chapter 4. The Rosser-Iwaniec Sieve 65 Chapter 5. Developing the Alternative Sieve 83 Chapter 6. An Upper-Bound Sieve 103 Chapter 7. Primes in Short Intervals 119 Chapter 8. The Brun-Titchmarsh Theorem on Average 157 Chapter 9. Primes in Almost All Intervals 189 Chapter 10. Combination with the Vector Sieve 201 Chapter 11. Generalizing to Algebraic Number Fields 231 Chapter 12. Variations on Gaussian Primes 265 Chapter 13. Primes of the Form x3 + 2y3 303 Chapter 14. Epilogue 335 Appendix 337 Bibliography 349 Index 361
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