
doi: 10.2307/3614761
Proofs of the prime number theorem are extremely hard to follow, and leave the impression, at least among amateurs, that the essential property of prime numbers, namely their primeness, plays very little part in the argument. Simple reasoning, based on the rules of probability, can however give a very fair indication of the way in which the density of primes in the region x varies with x .
number theory
number theory
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