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Ideas in the elementary proof of the prime number theorem (Selberg / Erdős)

I'm reading the elementary proof of prime number theorem (Selberg / Erdős, around 1949). One key step is to prove that, with $\vartheta(x) = \sum_{p\leq x} \log p$, $$(1) \qquad\qquad \vartheta(x) \...
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