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The study of the distribution of prime numbers has fascinated mathematicians since antiquity. It is only in modern times, however, that a precise asymptotic law for the number of primes in arbitrarily long intervals has been obtained. For a real number x > 1, let π(x) denote the number of primes less than x. The prime number theorem is the assertion that
This theorem was conjectured independently by Legendre and Gauss.
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Goldfeld, D. (2004). The Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem: An Historical Perspective. In: Chudnovsky, D., Chudnovsky, G., Nathanson, M. (eds) Number Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9060-0_10
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