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Analytic Proof of the Prime Number Theorem

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The prime number theorem is equivalent to the statement

$$\psi (x) \sim xasx \to \infty$$
((1))

whereΨ(x) is Chebyshev’s function,

$$\psi (x) = \sum\limits_{n \leqslant x} { \wedge (n)}$$

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Apostol, T.M. (1976). Analytic Proof of the Prime Number Theorem. In: Introduction to Analytic Number Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-28579-4_14

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