Prime number theorem - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theoremLet π(x) be the prime-counting function defined to be the number of primes less than or equal to x, for any real number x. For example, π(10) = 4 because there are four prime numbers (2, 3, 5 and 7) less than or equal to 10. The prime number theorem then states that x / log x is a good approximation to π(x) (where log here means the natural logarithm), in the sense that the limitof the …
The Erdős–Selberg controversy - NTNU
https://www.math.ntnu.no/Selberg-interview/PNTThe Erdős–Selberg controversy. In a 2008 interview Atle Selberg gives his personal account of the events around the elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem.. Here is an excerpt (pdf) of the relevant parts of the interview, including two letters by Herman Weyl.. Other recent articles on the subject include: D. Goldfeld: The elementary proof of the prime number theorem: An …
The Mathematics of Paul Erdos
www.ams.org › notices › 199801of the prime number theorem. The history of the prime number theorem seems to be punctuated by major developments at half-century intervals and often in two’s. At the end of the eighteenth century Gauss and Legendre inde-pendently conjectured that the number of primes up to x, denoted ˇ(x), is asymptotically x=logx as x!1. (This came some ...