18.156 | Spring 2025 | Graduate

Projection Theory

Lecture 07: Applications of the Large Sieve to Number Theory

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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