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Originally posted by buchanan
Actually, maybe we even have pi(x)=Li(x)+O(x<sup>1/2</sup>), but that's stronger than RH and could be false even if RH is true.
Hasn't that been proven false?

And when it says for big oh of Sqrt[x]Ln[x], what constant are we meant to chuck out the front for the R.H. to be true? Because we can chuck out 10<sup>10<sup>10<sup>10<sup>10<sup>10</sup></sup></sup></sup></sup> and that might be true ...
 
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Most mathematicians believe the RH to be true. One (amongst only a few) who did not believe it was Atle Selberg. It saddens me to have to report here that he died a couple of days ago. He won the 1950 Fields Medal for his proof of the Prime Number Theorem - a more elementary one than ones previously available.



Selberg, A. "An Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem." Ann. Math. 50, 305-313, 1949.
 
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