Abstract
Euler (1762/63) stated that the number π(x) of primes not exceeding x equals approximately x/log x and several years later the young Gauss wrote the same assertion on the margin of the collection of mathematical tables of J.C.Schulze (1778) (Gauss 1791).
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Narkiewicz, W. (2000). Čebyšev’s Theorem. In: The Development of Prime Number Theory. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13157-2_3
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