prime number theorem
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The theorem that the number of prime numbers less than n asymptotically approaches n / ln(n) as n approaches infinity.
noun
Any theorem that concerns the distribution of prime numbers.
Example Sentences
- "But we cannot infer from them the equivalence in any sense of these two propositions, since we have used in our proof of the prime number theorem a subsidiary theorem on the order of magnitude of #92;zeta'(s)#47;#92;zeta(s)."
- "1974 [Academic Press], Harold M. Edwards, Riemann's Zeta Function, 2001, Dover, page 182, The problem of locating the roots p of ζ, and consequently the problem of estimating the error in the prime number theorem, is closely related to the problem of estimating the growth of ζ in the critical strip 0
- "In 1859, Riemann attempted to give a complete proof of the prime number theorem using the zeta function for complex variables s. Although he was not successful in proving the prime number theorem he established many properties of the zeta function and showed that the prime number theorem depended on the zeros of the zeta function."
- "In [6], [11], abstract prime number theorems are proved under a variety of conditions."
Inflected Forms
the prime number theorem (canonical)
prime number theorems (plural)
Phrases
prime-counting function
Frequently Paired Words
prime-counting function