The Erdős–Selberg controversy

In a 2008 interview Atle Selberg gives his personal account of the events around the elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem.

Here is an excerpt^(pdf) of the relevant parts of the interview, including two letters by Herman Weyl.

Other recent articles on the subject include:

• D. Goldfeld: The elementary proof of the prime number theorem: An historical perspective^(pdf)
• Joel Spencer and Ronald Graham: The Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem. The Mathematical Intelligencer 31 #3 (2009) 18–23 (doi:10.1007/s00283-009-9063-9).