TY - BOOK AU - Cojocaru,Alina AU - Murty,Maruti Ram ED - London Mathematical Society. TI - An introduction to sieve methods and their applications T2 - London Mathematical Society student texts SN - 0511132859 AV - QA246 .C65 2005eb U1 - 512.73 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Sieves (Mathematics) KW - MATHEMATICS KW - Number Theory KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-221) and index; Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Some basic notions; 2 Some elementary sieves; 3 The normal order method; 4 The TurĂ¡n sieve; 5 The sieve of Eratosthenes; 6 Brun's sieve; 7 Selberg's sieve; 8 The large sieve; 9 The Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem; 10 The lower bound sieve; 11 New directions in sieve theory; References; Index N2 - This book provides a motivated introduction to sieve theory. Rather than focus on technical details which obscure the beauty of the theory, the authors focus on examples and applications, developing the theory in parallel. Suitable for a senior level undergraduate course or an introductory graduate course in analytic number theory UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=146123 ER -