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A Simple Proof of a Theorem of Landau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

E. M. Wright
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Department of Mathematics, University of Aberdeen.
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Let σk(x) be the number of integers nx which are the product of just k prime factors, so that

and let πk(x) be the number of such n for which all the pi are different.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1954

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