Overview

From the book reviews: "This is the softcover reprint of a monograph that was awarded the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer prize in 1996. It is devoted to a recurring theme in number theory, namely that the non-vanishing of L-functions implies important arithmetical results. ... Giving a well-informed overview of related results it will continue to be an important source of information for graduate students and researchers ... ." (Ch. Baxa, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 173, 2014)