Introduction to Analytic Number Theory

Introduction to Analytic Number Theory




3-4 hours of lectures per week

Steffen Bentzen

Content:
In this course we shall consider questions like:
1. How many primes are less than n?
2. Given two coprime numbers a and n. How many primes are congruent to a modulo n?
3. In how many ways can a given positive number be written as a sum of positive numbers?

The questions themselves are interesting, but so are the methods used to answer them: they use techniques from the theory of functions (of a complex variable).

Prerequisites:
Algebra 1 plus Complex Function Theory

Litterature:
Notes

NB:
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