Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.

Do not be fooled. The Sieve, Book 1 of 4 of the Drakon epic fantasy series, is the tale of twelve-year old Da-Ren but this is not a young-adult series. Your children shouldn't read it until they're children no more. On his thirty-second year Da-Ren arrives on the island of the Castlemonastery to redeem the lives of his wife and daughter. His only offering is a jar of honey. He is born in a pagan tribe, north of the Blackvein River, a leader of fierce men who dream only of the story they'll take to the stars and who kneel only in front of the longskull witches. For years the monks will transcribe his words, a brutal yet poetic first-person narrative of war, death and love. The ink will flow brown for his childhood, black for the tribe, red for the campaign, and blue for his metamorphosis. It is a story that reads like fantasy though its most unbelievable moments are based on historical events and actual tribes. This is a hard-fantasy novel where man is the only monster and the human spirit fights against superstition and racial hatred. Will it prevail? At what price? "I cannot defeat their stories, the legends, the prophecies... they have endured for countless winters now." "You can, Da-Ren. But not with blades. Only with other stories. Better ones."

This text by a noted pair of experts is regarded as the definitive work on sieve methods. It formulates the general sieve problem, explores the theoretical background, and illustrates significant applications. 1974 edition.

Rather than focus on the technical details which can obscure the beauty of sieve theory, the authors focus on examples and applications, developing the theory in parallel.

Among the modern methods used to study prime numbers, the 'sieve' has been one of the most efficient. Originally conceived by Linnik in 1941, the 'large sieve' has developed extensively since the 1960s, with a recent realization that the underlying principles were capable of applications going well beyond prime number theory. This book develops a general form of sieve inequality, and describes its varied applications, including the study of families of zeta functions of algebraic curves over finite fields; arithmetic properties of characteristic polynomials of random unimodular matrices; homological properties of random 3-manifolds; and the average number of primes dividing the denominators of rational points on elliptic curves. Also covered in detail are the tools of harmonic analysis used to implement the forms of the large sieve inequality, including the Riemann Hypothesis over finite fields, and Property (T) or Property (tau) for discrete groups.

The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay. 'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one of the capital's toughest neighbourhoods? It was, of course, utterly magnificent and I'd give anything to climb inside it again for just one day.' In the first volume of his memoirs, Danny Baker brings his early years to life as only he knows how. With his trademark humour and eye for a killer anecdote, he takes us all the way from the council house in south-east London that he shared with his mum Betty and dad 'Spud' (played by Peter Kay) to the music-biz excesses of Los Angeles, where he famously interviewed Michael Jackson for the NME. Laugh-out-loud funny, it is also an affectionate but unsentimental hymn to a bygone era.

The number field sieve is an algorithm for finding the prime factors of large integers. It depends on algebraic number theory. Proposed by John Pollard in 1988, the method was used in 1990 to factor the ninth Fermat number, a 155-digit integer. The algorithm is most suited to numbers of a special form, but there is a promising variant that applies in general. This volume contains six research papers that describe the operation of the number field sieve, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Pollard's original manuscript is included. In addition, there is an annotated bibliography of directly related literature.