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The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution User Rating: / 5 PoorBest  Written by Giulia Biagini    Sunday, 14 January 2007 Basic Information Title: The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution Authors: Gérald Tenenbaum and Michel Mendès France Paperback: 115 pages Publisher: American Mathematical Society (May 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 0821816470 ISBN-13: 978-0821816479

This book gives a general and pleasing overview on many topics about the distribution of prime numbers. Its goal is to provide insights of different nature on that theme and this is performed through the illustration of conjectures, methods, results and even (very concise) proofs.   The volume is divided into five chapters, they are: Genesis: from Euclid to Chebyshev; The Riemann Zeta Function; Stochastic Distribution of Prime Numbers; An Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem; The Major Conjectures. All of them are almost independent one to another, so you may skip the ones you are not interested in without any problem. The first one consists of