MATH Seminar

Title: Pretentiousness in Analytic Number Theory
Colloquium: N/A
Speaker: Andrew Granville of Universite de Montreal
Contact: Dwight Duffus, dwight@mathcs.emory.edu
Date: 2008-10-09 at 4:00PM
Venue: MSC W201
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Abstract: Inspired by the "rough classification" ideas from additive combinatorics, Soundararajan and I have recently introduced the notion of pretentiousness into analytic number theory. Besides giving a more accessible description of the ideas behind the proofs of several well- known difficult results of analytic number theory, it has allowed us to strengthen several results, like the Polya-Vinogradov inequality, the prime number theorem, etc. In this talk we will introduce these ideas and gave some flavour of these developments.