Table of Contents

Definitions and techniques Zeros, multiplicity and growth Periodicity Operations on power series and linear recurrence sequences Character sums and solutions of congruences Arithmetic structure of recurrence sequences Distribution in finite fields and residue rings Distribution modulo 1 and matrix exponential functions Applications to other sequences Elliptic divisibility sequences Sequences arising in graph theory and dynamics Finite fields and algebraic number fields Pseudo-random number generators Computer science and coding theory Appendix: Sequences from the on-line encyclopedia Bibliography Index.