School of Mathematics Colloquium

The Erdos-Kac theorem: an introduction to probabilistic number theory

by Dr. V. Vinay Kumaraswamy (TIFR, Mumbai)

Friday, June 4, 2021 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Over zoom
Description
Abstract: A famous result of Hardy and Ramanujan states that almost every
large integer $N$ has approximately $\log \log N$ prime factors. This
result was subsequently refined by Erdos and Kac, who proved that the
distribution of the number of prime factors of an integer, when suitably
normalised, may be modelled by the Gaussian random variable. In this talk,
I will discuss some motivations of the Erdos-Kac theorem and outline its
proof.