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Deligne's Theorem, found at Wikipedia under the heading of Weil conjectures, which is the Riemann Hypothesis for zeta-functions of algebraic varieties over finite fields, is often applied to estimate exponential sums in Number Theory, I suspect often by people (like me) who haven't gone through a proof in detail.