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The Density of Prime Numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

G. Hoffman De Visme
G. Hoffman De Visme*
Affiliation:
R.A.F. Technical College, Henlow
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 45 , Issue 351 , February 1961 , pp. 13 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1961

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