Solomon Friedberg - Boston College - Packing Primes 1/11

I thought it was interesting that I had to come out to Utah to hear someone who could possibly be my neighbor.  Being from Cambridge, BC is only about 15 minutes from my house.  

1.  The speaker introduced some new notation that was a little fuzzy because it was new, such as the pi function and Riemann zeta function.  He also used several words that I did not understand but were spoken too quickly for me to be able to write them down.

2.  I thought it was interesting that not only did he have a homework problem from the second assignment on a slide but his proof was the exact same proof that I had done.  I thought it was interesting that he hadn't seen the Pi (product) function until graduate school because I have already seen it in several instances and I still have a year of undergraduate work left.  The connection that he drew between the pi function and e was interesting.  That relationship was that the number of primes less than or equal to x (pi(x)) was approximately equal to x/lnx.