Prime number theorem 

<math>\pi(x)={\rm the\ number\ of\ primes\ that\ are\ }\leq x</math>

The prime number theorem then states that

<math>\pi(x)\sim\frac{x}{\ln(x)}</math>

where ln(x) is the natural logarithm of x. Thisn'tation means that the limit of the quotient of the two functions π(x) and x/ln(x) as x approaches infinity is 1; it does not mean that the limit of the difference of the two functions as x approaches infinity is zero.

An even better approximation, and an estimate of the error term, is given by the formula

<math>\pi(x)={\rm Li} (x) + O \left(x e^{-\frac{1}{15}\sqrt{\ln(x)}}\right)</math>

for x → ∞ (see big O notation). Here Li(x) is the offset logarithmic integral function.

Here is a table that shows how the three functions (π(x), x/ln(x) and Li(x)) compare:

x	π(x)	π(x) - x/ln(x)	Li(x) - π(x)	x/π(x)
101	4	0	2	2.500
102	25	3	5	4.000
103	168	23	10	5.952
104	1,229	143	17	8.137
105	9,592	906	38	10.430
106	78,498	6,116	130	12.740
107	664,579	44,159	339	15.050
108	5,761,455	332,774	754	17.360
109	50,847,534	2,592,592	1,701	19.670
1010	455,052,511	20,758,029	3,104	21.980
1011	4,118,054,813	169,923,159	11,588	24.280
1012	37,607,912,018	1,416,705,193	38,263	26.590
1013	346,065,536,839	11,992,858,452	108,971	28.900
1014	3,204,941,750,802	102,838,308,636	314,890	31.200
1015	29,844,570,422,669	891,604,962,452	1,052,619	33.510
1016	279,238,341,033,925	7,804,289,844,392	3,214,632	35.810
4 ·1016	1,075,292,778,753,150	28,929,900,579,949	5,538,861	37.200

As a consequence of the prime number theorem, one get an asymptotic expression for the nth prime number p(n):

<math>p(n)\sim n\ln(n).</math>

The theorem was conjectured by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1798 and proved independently by Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin in 1896. The proof used methods from complex analysis, specifically the Riemann zeta function. Nowadays, so-called "elementary" proofs are available that only use number theoretic means. The first of these was provided partly independently by Paul Erdös and Atle Selberg in 1949 although it was prior believed that such proofs with only real variables can not be found.

Because of the connection between the Riemann zeta function and π(x), the Riemann hypothesis has considerable importance in number theory: if established, it would yield a far better estimate of the error involved in the prime number theorem than is available today.

Helge von Koch in 1901 showed that more specifically, if the Riemann hypothesis is true, the error term in the above relation can be improved to

<math> \pi(x) = {\rm Li} (x) + O\left(\sqrt x \ln (x)\right)</math>

The constant involved in the O-notation is unknown.

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