In analytic number theory, the Siegel–Walfisz theorem was obtained by Arnold Walfisz as an application of a theorem by Carl Ludwig Siegel to primes in arithmetic progressions.
Define
where denotes the von Mangoldt function and φ to be Euler's totient function.
Then the theorem states that given any real number N there exists a positive constant CN depending only on N such that
whenever (a, q) = 1 and
The constant CN is not effectively computable because Siegel's theorem is ineffective.
From the theorem we can deduce the following bound regarding the prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions: If, for (a,q)=1, by we denote the number of primes less than or equal to x which are congruent to a mod q, then