Math
8910
- Seminar in Analysis - Summer 2018
Analysis
and Number Theory
Monday-Friday
10:00-11:00, June 18-22 & 25-29, in Boyd 410
10 Lectures on Analysis and Number Theory
Lecture
1: Number Theory I - Basic Prime
Number Theory
Lecture 2: Number Theory II - The
Riemann-Zeta Function
Lecture 3: Number Theory
III - Newman's Short Proof of the Prime Number
Theorem
Lecture 4: Number Theory IV -
Dirichlet Convolution, Dirichlet's Hyperbola
Method, and Landau's Theorem on the Mean Value
of the Mobius Function
Lecture 5: Probability - Borel's Law
of Large Numbers and Hausdorff's improvement,
Random Series and a second proof of Hausdorff's
improvement
Lecture 6: Harmonic
Analysis - Maximal Functions and the Lebesgue
Differentiation Theorem
Lecture 7: Ergodic Theory I - An
Introduction including Weyl's Equidistribution
Theorem and an application to V. I. Arnold's
"first digits of the powers of 2" problem
Lecture 8: Ergodic
Theory II - Poincare Recurrence, Ergodicity and
von-Neumann's Mean Ergodic Theorem
Lecture 9: Ergodic
Theory III - The Maximal Ergodic Theorem and
Birkhoff's Pointwise Ergodic Theorem
Lecture 10: Ergodic
Theory IV - Applications
of
the Pointwise Ergodic Theorem to Normal
Numbers and Continued Fractions, specifically
Khintchine's constant
Some Notes on Prime Numbers
Notes on Ergodic Theory
- Ben Green's Lecture
Notes on Ergodic Theory. These conclude
with an application to combinatorial number
theory, namely Furstenberg's approach to
Szemeredi's theorem.
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