Rather than focus on the technical details which can obscure the beauty of sieve theory, the authors focus on examples and applications, developing the theory i
This text by a noted pair of experts is regarded as the definitive work on sieve methods. It formulates the general sieve problem, explores the theoretical back
This book seeks to describe the rapid development in recent decades of sieve methods able to detect prime numbers. The subject began with Eratosthenes in antiqu
Among the modern methods used to study prime numbers, the 'sieve' has been one of the most efficient. Originally conceived by Linnik in 1941, the 'large sieve'