This work provides an introduction to four central problems in analytic number theory. These are (1) the problems of estimating the number of integer points in planar domains, (2) the problem of the distribution of prime numbers in the sequence of all natural numbers and in arithmetic progressions, (3) Goldbach's problems on sums of primes, and (4) Waring's problem on sums of k-th powers. The following fundamental methods of analytic number theory are used to solve these problems: complex integration, I.M. Vinogradov's method of trigonometric sums, and the circle method of G.H. Hardy, J.E....

This English translation of Karatsuba's Basic Analytic Number Theory follows closely the second Russian edition, published in Moscow in 1983. For the English edition, the author has considerably rewritten Chapter I, and has corrected various typographical and other minor errors throughout the the text. August, 1991 Melvyn B. Nathanson Introduction to the English Edition It gives me great pleasure that Springer-Verlag is publishing an English trans lation of my book. In the Soviet Union, the primary purpose of this monograph was to introduce mathematicians to the basic results and methods of...