Global Fields

July 2 - 6, 2007, Moscow, Russia

Laboratoire J.-V. Poncelet

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Michel Balazard

Institut de Mathematiques de Bordeaux, France

Elementary methods in the study of the distribution of prime numbers

The elementary methods (that is, the use of real analysis vs. complex analysis) have a long history from Chebyshev to modern times. They lead to great achievements, due to Erdos, Selberg, Bombieri, etc. I recently started a thorough study of these methods, in order to understand their scope. In the talk, I will give a quick survey of this field, and some new observations.