Full printed notes will be provided for the course, including the non-examinable topics (marked with asterisks above). The following books are relevant to the course.

  1. G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An introduction to the Theory of Numbers (Sixth edition, OUP 2008). Chapters 16, 17, 18.
  2. H. Davenport, Multiplicative number theory (Third Edition, Springer Graduate texts 74), selected parts of the first half.
  3. M. du Sautoy, Music of the primes (this is a popular book which could be useful background reading for the course).
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