Arithmetic Functions and Integer Products Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Elliott, P. D. T. a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461385504 ISBN-13: 9781461385509 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Number Theory |
Dewey: 512.7 |
Series: Grundlehren Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften |
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.48 lbs) 461 pages |
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Publisher Description: Every positive integer m has a product representation of the form where v, k and the ni are positive integers, and each Ei = I. A value can be given for v which is uniform in the m. A representation can be computed so that no ni exceeds a certain fixed power of 2m, and the number k of terms needed does not exceed a fixed power of log 2m. Consider next the collection of finite probability spaces whose associated measures assume only rational values. Let hex) be a real-valued function which measures the information in an event, depending only upon the probability x with which that event occurs. Assuming hex) to be non- negative, and to satisfy certain standard properties, it must have the form -A(x log x + (I - x) 10g(I -x . Except for a renormalization this is the well-known function of Shannon. What do these results have in common? They both apply the theory of arithmetic functions. The two widest classes of arithmetic functions are the real-valued additive and the complex-valued multiplicative functions. Beginning in the thirties of this century, the work of Erdos, Kac, Kubilius, Turan and others gave a discipline to the study of the general value distribution of arithmetic func- tions by the introduction of ideas, methods and results from the theory of Probability. I gave an account of the resulting extensive and still developing branch of Number Theory in volumes 239/240 of this series, under the title Probabilistic Number Theory. |