Number Theory for the Millennium III 9781568811529

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Volume 3
Some Remarks on Primality Testing Based on Lucas Functions
Splitting of Primes in Infinite Extensions
The ABC Conjecture and Prime Divisors of the Lucas and Lehmer Sequences
On the Parity of Generalized Partition Functions
Quadratic Twists of Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves
Identities from the Holomorphic Projection of Modular Forms
Iterative Methods for Pairs of Additive Diophantine Equations
Quelques Remarques Sur La Théorie D’Iwasawa Des Courbes Elliptiques
Computing Rational Points on Curves
Norms of Products and Factors of Polynomials
G. H. Hardy As I Knew Him
Discriminants of Some Painlevé Polynomials
Identities Between Mahler Measures
Normal Integral Bases, Swan Modules and p-Adic L-Functions
Discriminants and Divisibility for Chebyshev-Like Polynomials
Remarks on Adelic Geometry of Numbers
Some Applications of Diophantine Approximation
On the Solutions of a Family of Sextic Thue Equations
Waring’s Problem: A Survey
Chernoff Type Bounds for Sums of Dependent Random Variables and Applications in Additive Number Theory
Prime Divisors of the Bernoulli and Euler Numbers
An Improved Method for Solving the Family of Thue Equations X4 – 2rX2Y2 – sY4 = 1
Constructing Hyperelliptic Curves Using Complex Multiplication
Solving the Pell Equation
A Central Limit Theorem for the Number of Distinct Degrees of Prime Factors in Additive Arithmetical Semigroups
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Number Theory for the Millennium III

Number Theory for the Millennium III

Edited by M. A. Bennett, B.C Berndt, N. Boston, H. G. Diamond, A. J. Hildebrand and W. Philipp

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