The Development of Prime Number Theory 
Subtitle: From Euclid to Hardy and Littlewood
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9783540662891
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Number Theory; Theory Of Numbers; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; History & Philosophy; Mathematical Analysis; Mathematics / Number Theory; Numbers, Prime
First sentence: 1. The distinction between prime and composite integers as well as the notions of the greatest common divisor and least common multiple already appear in the seventh book of Euclid's1 Elementa (Euclid 300 B.C.).