On Euler's remarks on the distribution of primes (Q902152)

The authors reconsider Euler's observations on very big primes and on the distribution of primes in order to suggest a plausible interpretation of two rather puzzling remarks of his on the distribution of primes leading to some confusion in the literature. -- After a good and informative introduction regarding number theoretic history in the works of Euler and contemporaries, they continue in Section 1 with ``Prime number problems in the Euler-Goldbach correspondence and in articles of Euler himself''. Here, they deal with the contents of Euler's \textit{De numeris primis valde magnis} (view: [Opera omnia. Series I: Opera mathematica. Vol. III: Commentationes arithmeticae. Ed. F. Rudio. Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner (1917)]; reviewer's remark: the manner of referring to the literature, as done by the authors of the paper under review, was sometimes puzzling for him). These contents gave rise to some comments by the publisher Ferdiand Rudio, experienced by the authors as leading to puzzling or confusion in understanding what Euler and Rudio are talking about. In Section 2, the authors deal with the intentions of Rudio and they doubt about those. In Section 3, one finds an attempt to a conclusive interpretation of Euler's remarks. The paper under review provides the reader a good detailed impression of number theoretic questions in Euler's days.