%0 Journal Article %T A newcomer's guide to zeta functions of groups and rings %A Christopher Voll %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X These notes grew out of lectures given at the LMS-EPSRC Short Course on Asymptotic Methods in Infinite Group Theory, University of Oxford, 9-14 September 2007, organised by Dan Segal. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1832v1