Stuk 28-39 - Bombieri, E. and others

G.28: 1963–64. Includes Davenport's report on Bombieri's work in Cambridge 1963-64 and arrangements for Davenport to lecture in Milan.
G.29: Jan.-July 1965. Correspondence, notes and calculations; includes draft paper by Bombieri on 'The Statistical theory of Dirichlet L-functions'.
G.30: Aug. 1965. Correspondence and drafts on primes paper (published Proc.Roy.Soc. A, 1966).
G.31: Aug. 1965. 'Small differences of primes', two ms. drafts, one each by Davenport and Bombieri, related to correspondence.
G.32: Sept.-Dec. 1965. Continuing correspondence and drafts, on 'prime numbers' paper and on 'large sieve' paper (published 1968).
G.33: Jan.-Apr. 1966.
G.34: June-Sept. 1966. Includes letter from H. Halberstam.
G.35: Oct.-Dec. 1966. Mainly on sieve paper.
G.36: Extensive notes by Davenport kept with 1966 correspondence.
G.37: 1967. Includes revised version of 'large sieve method' July, and correspondence on polynomials (leading up to collaborative paper published in 1969.)
G.38: Jan.-July 1968. Includes arrangements re publication of 'large sieve' paper, and a 7 pp. ms. by Davenport 'The case small', and letters of comment.
G.39: 1969. Also includes press-cutting re award to Bombieri of the Fields medal at International Mathematical Congress, Vancouver, 1974.

See also: D.194-195, 'Some inequalities involving trigonometrical polynomials', with E. Bombieri, and D.183, 'On the large sieve method', with E. Bombieri

Bombieri, an Italian mathematician working at Milan, Pisa and Princeton, visited Davenport in 1963 and 1964 and published four collaborative papers with him (See Memoir, pp.164-165).