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Hardy's legacy to number theory

Part of: History of mathematics and mathematicians Multiplicative number theory Additive number theory; partitions Discontinuous groups and automorphic forms Zeta and $L$-functions: analytic theory

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R. C. Vaughan
R. C. Vaughan
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Address From 1st January 1999: Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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This is an expanded version of two lectures given at the conference held at Sydney University in December 1997 on the 50th anniversary of the death of G. H. Hardy.

MSC classification

Secondary: 01A60: 20th century 11F11: Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight 11M26: Nonreal zeros of $zeta (s)$ and $L(s, chi)$; Riemann and other hypotheses 11N35: Sieves 11P05: Waring's problem and variants 11P32: Goldbach-type theorems; other additive questions involving primes 11P55: Applications of the Hardy-Littlewood method 11P82: Analytic theory of partitions
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , October 1998 , pp. 238 - 266
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1998

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