A History of the Prime Number Theorem

DOI10.2307/2319162MaRDI QIDQ5680175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Larry Joel Goldstein

Publication date 1973

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2319162

zbMATH Keywords

EratosthenesEuclidEuler's proofGauss's tables checked by computerinfinity of primesletter from Gauss to Enkelists of primesmethods of Hadamard and de la Valleé-Poussinproof of prime number theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of number theory (11-03) Primes (11A41) (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Distribution of primes (11N05)

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• Looking backward: from Euler to Riemann.
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• The logarithmic integral: prime numbers and something more
• ``The end of proof? The integration of different mathematical cultures as experimental mathematics comes of age

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