The music of the primes : searching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics / Marcus Du Sautoy.
By: Du Sautoy, Marcus [author].
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TextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2011Description: 335, 13 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0062064010; 9780062064011.Subject(s): Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866 | Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866 | Numbers, Prime | Numbers, PrimeDDC classification: 512.7 DU | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes extras: about the author; about the book; read on.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index.
Who wants to be a millionaire? -- The atoms of arithmetic -- Riemann's imaginary mathematical looking-glass -- The Riemann Hypothesis: From random primes to orderly zeros -- The mathematical relay race: Realising Riemann's revolution -- Ramanujan, the mathematical mystic -- Mathematical exodus: From G©œttingen to Princeton -- Machines of the mind -- The computer age: From the mind to the desktop -- Cracking numbers and codes -- From orderly zeros to quantum chaos -- The missing piece of the jigsaw.
Explains how the prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians, and recounts efforts to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, first suggested by Bernard Riemann in 1859, that would finally bring order and harmony to these numbers.
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