Contents

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}|=∑p≤x1.

Euclid showed: lim⁡x→∞π(x)=∞.

Theorem (Prime number theorem).

lim⁡x→∞π(x) log ⁡⁡xx=1.

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