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44 Chapter 1 PRIMES!<br />

sums. These sums generally contain information—one might say “spectral”<br />

information—about special functions and sets of numbers. Thus, exponential<br />

sums provide a powerful bridge between complex Fourier analysis and number<br />

theory. For a real-valued function f, realt, and integers a

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