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What follows is an expanded version of my lectures at the NATO School on Equidistribution. I have tried to keep the informal style of the lectures. In particular, I have sometimes oversimplified matters in order to convey the spirit of an argument.
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Soundararajan, K. (2007). THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIME NUMBERS. In: Granville, A., Rudnick, Z. (eds) Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction. NATO Science Series, vol 237. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5404-4_4
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