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The following article is a revised version of the author’s inaugural lecture (Antrittsvorlesung) held on May 5, 1975 at Bonn University. Additional remarks and references to the literature may be found at the end.

Translated from the German by R. Perlis. The original German version will also be published in Beihefte zu Elemente der Mathematik No. 15, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel.

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Zagier, D. The First 50 Million Prime Numbers. The Mathematical Intelligencer 1 (Suppl 2), 7–19 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03351556

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