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From the back cover: "One notable new direction this century in the study of primes has been the influx of ideas from probability. The goal of this book is to provide insights into the prime numbers and to describe how a sequence so tautly determined can incorporate such a striking amount of randomness.
"The book opens with some classic topics of number theory. It ends with a discussion of some of the outstanding conjectures in number theory. In between are an excellent chapter on the stochastic properties of primes and a walk through an elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem."
BRIEF CONTENTS
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the French Edition
Notation and conventions
1. Genesis: From Euclid to Chebyshev
2. The Riemann Zeta Function
3. Stochastic Distribution of Prime Numbers
4. An Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem
