Topics in Classical Number Theory I-II. [antikvár]

PREFACE An international conference on number theory was held in Budapest from the 20th to the 26th of July, 1981. It was a continuation of a now traditional series of number theory meetings initiated and organized by Paul Turán. The longer interval that elapsed after the previous conference was caused by his untimely death on the 26th of September 19 76 and by continuing the tradition the Organizing Committee also wanted to pay tribute to his memory. The meeting was opened by a one hour lecture given, on invitation, by Professor A. Schinzel on Turán's number theoretic work. We are grateful to him for a thorough outside appraisal complementing the many papers that have been written on this mostly by Hungarians. There were no more invited lectures. The Organizing Committee thought it best not to emphasize certain topics but rather have a general exchange of results and ideas. We have, however, confined the scope of the conference to "classical" number theory, reflected also in the list of invitation. So, for instance, the - 3 -