文档介绍:NUMBER THEORY ARISING
FROM FINITE FIELDS
NUMBER THEORY ARISING
FROM FINITE FIELDS
Analytic and Probabilistic Theory
John Knopfmacher
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Wen-Bin Zhang
University of the West Indies
Kingston, Jamaica
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