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082 0 4 _a512.7 DU
091 _a512.72
100 1 _aDu Sautoy, Marcus.
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe music of the primes :
_bsearching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics /
_cMarcus Du Sautoy.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper Perennial,
_c2011.
300 _a335, 13 p. :
_bill. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _aIncludes extras: about the author; about the book; read on.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index.
505 0 _aWho 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.
520 _aExplains 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.
600 1 0 _aRiemann, Bernhard,
_d1826-1866.
600 1 7 _aRiemann, Bernhard,
_d1826-1866.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00066508.
650 0 _aNumbers, Prime.
650 7 _aNumbers, Prime.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01041241.
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