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What is analytic number theory?

What kind of problems are studied?

A variety of problems about integers, especially primes.

Key feature: To show that a set (of primes) is infinite, want to estimate the number of elements x.

Definition. Define

π(x)=|{primes x}|=px1.

Euclid showed: limxπ(x)=.

Theorem (Prime number theorem).

limxπ(x) log xx=1.

π(x)xlogx. (Conjectured: Legendre, Gauss. Proved: Hadamard, de la Vallée Poussin)