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Lecture 07: Applications of the Large Sieve to Number Theory
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MIT 18.156 Projection Theory, Spring 2025
Instructor: Lawrence D Guth
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We discuss one of the main applications of the large sieve in number theory: the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem about the distribution of prime numbers modulo q for different q.
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