Additive Combinatorics (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 105) - Softcover

Tao, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521136563 ISBN 13: 9780521136563

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Additive combinatorics is the theory of counting additive structures in sets. This theory has seen exciting developments and dramatic changes in direction in recent years thanks to its connections with areas such as number theory, ergodic theory and graph theory. This graduate-level 2006 text will allow students and researchers easy entry into this fascinating field. Here, the authors bring together in a self-contained and systematic manner the many different tools and ideas that are used in the modern theory, presenting them in an accessible, coherent, and intuitively clear manner, and providing immediate applications to problems in additive combinatorics. The power of these tools is well demonstrated in the presentation of recent advances such as Szemerédi's theorem on arithmetic progressions, the Kakeya conjecture and Erdos distance problems, and the developing field of sum-product estimates. The text is supplemented by a large number of exercises and new results.

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About the Authors

Terence Tao is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory.

Van H. Vu is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521136563
• ISBN 13: 9780521136563
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 532