Talk:Analytic Number Theory

Status of this book?
What is going on with this book? You've removed almost the entire contents of the main page, which has very nearly the same effect as deleting the book. Most of the existing pages of the book are effectively invisible right now &mdash; is the material being moved elsewhere, and if so, where, and is a history merge called for? &mdash; and the book itself is cut off from our whole project-wide indexing system because you've removed the crucial indexing templates from the main page. What's up? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:04, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I am attempting a clear separation of subjects. Thus, many of the contents will be moved to other wikibooks. Most probably, they will be replaced by more general propositions at the appropriate location. As usual, I ask for patience and lenience. --Mathmensch (discuss • contribs) 15:19, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Does it really make sense to pull a book off the shelves in anticipation of redistributing the material? Would it make sense to leave it in place until the move is done, thus maximizing the benefit that people can get from the material in the meantime? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I suppose that my English has improved since I wrote the old chapters (which are, by the way, far from complete), and I do want to avoid being associated with material written in inferior English. --Mathmensch (discuss • contribs) 17:51, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * If you're the only significant contributor to those pages, you can request their deletion. At whatever point in the process you find that convenient.  But there remains the question about pulling the material out of circulation in the meantime.  Wikibooks has little pockets, here and there, of material that's gotten kind of lost-in-the-shuffle because some major operation was started but not completed; so it seems like a good idea to arrange that each intermediate state of things is itself as useful as one can arrange. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:34, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I will most certainly try and complete the operation, ie. in this case to rewrite the ANT wikibook. Moreover, the Complex Analysis wikibook tops the list of my priorities, and it will most certainly contain a detailed treatment of Zeta- and L-functions, alongside the Weierstraß and Mittag-Leffler theorems (which are among the things that were originally to be covered by the ANT book, but will now be moved so that the subjects are properly distinguished).
 * On another note, let it be said that I will be most grateful for any advice regarding what will probably seem to a native speaker as a very imperfect capability of writing in English. --Mathmensch (discuss • contribs) 06:40, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

What is the status of the material in this book now? (I notice it is flagged at the Wikibooks Stacks attention needed category because it's no longer on a shelf.) In the long run it'd be nice not to have "dead" retired material lying around uncategorized. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:36, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, sorry for my absence. Unfortunately, I'd been ill for quite a while, and now I'm recovering. Bits of the book will probably be incorporated into the complex analysis wikibook, which I'll finish in German and then translate into English in order to make things easier for me. Still, ANT as a subject is not very far advanced in general, so that I feel very reluctant in writing such a book. Mostly, it's a conglomerate of clever tricks and bits of thought without an underlying system or big theory, and it treats only the most elementary cases. Frankly, it's not very beautiful, and we don't know a lot. --Mathmensch (discuss • contribs) 12:26, 25 December 2019 (UTC)