Publisher's Synopsis
The Canadian Number Theory Association was founded in 1987 with the sole purpose of enhancing scientific communication and exchange among number theorists in Canada. One of the means to that goal is the organization of conferences that bring together many number theorists from all over the world. The first such conference was held at the Banff Conference Center in 1988 and the second at the University of British Columbia in 1989.;The third conference of the CNTA was hosted by Queen's University in August 18-24, 1991, as part of the celebration of Queen's sesquicentennial anniversary. The conference was partially dedicated to Paulo Ribenboim on the occasion of his retirement from Queen's. There were 177 registered participants: 50 from Canada and 127 from abroad.;The conference met in plenary sessions in the morning and was divided into sessions focusing on specific areas in the afternoon. These areas were: analytic number theory, arithmetical algebraic geometry and diophantine approximation. A special session was organized on the afternoon of the 24th in honour of Paulo Ribenboin, who has been a central figure among Canadian number theorists and who will be retiring from Queen's University in the near future.;There were 33 invited addresses: 10 were presented at plenary sessions and 23 were given at the various specific sessions. A full list of these speakers is included in this volume. In addition, 37 contributed papers were presented at the conference.
