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An Introduction to Selberg’s Trace Formula


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1 Department of Mathematics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
     

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Since the dawn of history, humankind has been fascinated with prime numbers. They followed no pattern of generation and enigmatic problems could be posed in simple ways. The problem of the distribution of prime numbers was one such problem that was seminal in the creation of mathematics.
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M. Ram Murty
Department of Mathematics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Abstract


The Analogy
Since the dawn of history, humankind has been fascinated with prime numbers. They followed no pattern of generation and enigmatic problems could be posed in simple ways. The problem of the distribution of prime numbers was one such problem that was seminal in the creation of mathematics.