Student Number Theory Seminar

Stanley Xiao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Some applications of the large sieve”

In this talk we will take an interlude before we head towards the endgame of proving the Bombieri- Vinogradov theorem by discussing some very interesting applications of the large sieve. Specifically, we will see why the large sieve yields a proof that 100 percent of polynomials of a given degree have the full symmetric group as their Galois group.

MC 5479