7 Nov 2007; Mat-Nat Faculty (UiTø), room A228. Wednesday 10:15-12:00

Marius Overholt.

"The distribution of the primes".

A central problem in analytic number theory is to determine the distribution of the prime numbers 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,... among the positive integers 1,2,3,4,... . We give a historically motivated overview of the methods and achievements of this branch of number theory. Special emphasis will be put on the Möbius function, as preparation for the second lecture.