Prime numbers are the multiplicative building blocks of natural numbers. Understanding their overall influence and especially their distribution gives rise to central questions in mathematics and physics. In this 2006 text, the authors bring their extensive and distinguished research expertise to prepare the student for intelligent reading of the more advanced research literature.
A 2006 text based on courses taught successfully over many years at Michigan, Imperial College and Pennsylvania State.
'The text is very well written and accessible to students. On many occasions the authors explicitly describe basic methods known to everyone working in the field, but too often skipped in textbooks. This book may well become the standard introduction to analytic number theory.' Zentralblatt MATH
