Effective Results in Number Theory

Effective Results In Number Theory

For historical reasons and in order to have application to the solution of Diophantine equations, results in number theory have been scrutinised more than in other branches of mathematics to see if their content is effectively computable. Where it is asserted that some list of integers is finite, the question is whether in principle the list could be printed out after a machine computation.

Read more about Effective Results In Number Theory:  Littlewood's Result, The 'Siegel Period', Later Work, Theoretical Issues

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