Personal details |
Name |
Professor Brian
Conrey |
Job title |
Professor of Number Theory
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Department |
School of Mathematics University of Bristol
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Contact details |
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Qualifications |
B.Sc., Ph.D.(Mich.) |
Professional details |
Keywords |
number theory
L-functions
Riemann zeta-function
prime numbers
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Areas of expertise |
My research is in Number Theory, especially the analytic theory of L-functions. The prototype of an L-function is the Riemann zeta-function, whose properties play an essential role in the study of prime numbers. L-functions arise in many arithmetic and geometric problems and understanding the basic properties of these L-functions, such as their value distribution and the location of their zeros, is often the key to solving these problems.
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