23 Apr
2015
23 Apr
'15
2:29 a.m.
On 22/04/2015 22:13, Dan Asimov wrote:
G.H. Hardy & E.M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers algebraic but not analytic
I'm not sure that's a very accurate description. E.g., on the analytic side they get as far as proving the Prime Number Theorem (but no further; e.g., no Dirichlet) and on the algebraic side they get as far as discussing the primes in quadratic fields with unique factorization (but no further; e.g., no ideal class group). It's always felt to me like quite an "analytic" book, which makes sense given Hardy's work. But I'm not a number theorist; perhaps my idea of what counts as algebraic or analytic is distorted somehow. -- g