The Prime Number Theorem via Karamata's proof of the Landau-Ingham Tauberian theorem

Abstract

This is an exposition, in 12 pages including all prerequisites and a generalization, of Karamata's little known elementary proof of the Landau-Ingham Tauberian theorem, a result in real analysis from which the Prime Number Theorem follows in a few lines. We believe this to be the most transparent of the elementary proofs of the PNT.