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Finding meaning in error terms
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  • Barry Mazur
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-2901
  • MR Author ID: 121915
  • ORCID: 0000-0002-1748-2953
  • Received by editor(s): September 9, 2007
  • Published electronically: February 6, 2008
  • Additional Notes: Part I of this article was presented in the Current Events Bulletin section of the winter meeting of the AMS on January 7, 2007, in New Orleans. The title of the talk was “The structure of error terms in number theory and an introduction to the Sato-Tate Conjecture”. Part I and some of Part II were published in the Current Events Bulletin of the AMS that was distributed at the meeting.

  • Dedicated: In memory of Serge Lang
  • © Copyright 2008 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 185-228
  • MSC (2000): Primary 11-02, 11F03, 11F80, 11G05, 11G40
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01207-X
  • MathSciNet review: 2383303