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Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers

By Dan Rockmore

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2006
ISBN
0375727728, 9780375727726
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1994927 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
304\0
Time added
2014-04-12 15:48:30

Description

For 150 years the Riemann hypothesis has been the holy grail of mathematics. Now, at a moment when mathematicians are finally moving in on a proof, Dartmouth professor Dan Rockmore tells the riveting history of the hunt for a solution.In 1859 German professor Bernhard Riemann postulated a law capable of describing with an amazing degree of accuracy the occurrence of the prime numbers. Rockmore takes us all the way from Euclid to the mysteries of quantum chaos to show how the Riemann hypothesis lies at the very heart of some of the most cutting-edge research going on today in physics and mathematics.

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