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On a remark of Tait on FLT for the exponent 3
This is one of those recreational questions that aren't really about research. I found a curious remark in an old volume of American Mathematical Monthly (1922) which I'll quote below:
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What was the first elementary proof that $\pi(x)=o(x)$?
Denote by $\pi(x)$ the number of primes $\leq x$. I'm interested in knowing who came up with the first elementary proof that $\pi(x)=o(x)$.
I know that Chebyshev demonstrated elementarily before ...
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