The distribution of primes plays a central role in number theory. The famous mathematician Gauss had conjectured that the number of primes between \(1\) and \(n\) is roughly \(n/\log n\). This estimation gets more and more accurate as \(n\to \infty\). We use \(\pi(n)\) to denote the number of primes between \(1\) and \(n\). So, mathematically, Gauss’s conjecture is equivalent to the claim
\[\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\pi(n)}{n/\log n}=1\]
This conjecture (currently known as the Prime Number Theor...
Published on March 22, 2019 20:42