Tao’s resolution of the Erdős discrepancy problem
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This article gives a simplified account of some of the ideas behind Tao’s resolution of the Erdős discrepancy problem.References
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Additional Information
- K. Soundararajan
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics , Stanford University , 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 380, Stanford, California 94305-2125
- MR Author ID: 319775
- Email: ksound@math.stanford.edu
- Received by editor(s): June 15, 2017
- Published electronically: September 11, 2017
- Additional Notes: The author is partially supported by the NSF, and a Simons Investigator grant from the Simons Foundation.
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 81-92
- MSC (2010): Primary 14K38, 11B75, 11N64, 11Z05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1598
- MathSciNet review: 3737211