TITLE: Exponential sums for beginner.
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: What are the good books, online lecture notes or starting material on exponentials sums with applications in number theory for a beginner, apart from N. M. Korobov's book? The book or notes should cover methods of Weyl, van der Corput and Vinogradov, with some details.

REPLY [3 votes]: K. Chandrasekharan, Exponential sums in the development of number theory, pp. 7-26 in 
Proceedings of the International Conference on Number Theory (Moscow, 1971), Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklov 132 (1973).