Introduction to number theory lecture 48 Proof of the prime number theorem
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This lecture is part of my Berkeley math 115 course “Introduction to number theory”
For the other lectures in the course see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yHsr3EFj53L8sMbzIhhXSAOpuZ1Fov8
We sketch the main ideas behind the proof of the prime number theorem.
Zagier’s paper with a short proof can be found at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2975232
The textbook is “An introduction to the theory of numbers” by Niven, Zuckerman, and Montgomery (5th edition).