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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics

By John Derbyshire

Book information

Publisher
Plume
Year
2004
ISBN
9780452285255, 0452285259
Open Library ID
OL7591053M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2972769 bytes)
Pages
447\447
Library
mexmat
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

Bernhard Riemann would make any list of the greatest mathematicians ever. In 1859, he proposed a formula to count prime numbers that has defied all attempts to prove it true. This new book tackles the Riemann hypothesis. Partly a biography of Riemann, Derbyshire's work presents more technical details about the hypothesis and will probably attract math recreationists. It requires, however, only a college-prep level of knowledge because of its crystalline explanations. Derbyshire treats the hypothesis historically, tracking increments of progress with sketches of well-known people, such as David Hilbert and Alan Turing, who have been stymied by it. Carrying a million-dollar bounty, the hypothesis is the most famous unsolved problem in math today, and interest in it will be both sated and stoked by these able authors.

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