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- Arithmetic Progression
- Quadratic Effect
- Bernoulli Number
- Prime Number Theorem
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Berndt, B.C. (1989). Ramanujan and the theory of prime numbers. In: Alladi, K. (eds) Number Theory, Madras 1987. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0086402
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