THE MUSIC O THE PRIMES : Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters / Marcus du Sautoy

By:

Du Sautoy, Marcus

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023Copyright date: c2023Edition: Fourth estate paperback editionDescription: xiii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781841155807
0066210704
9780066210704

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

512.72 22 MDS

LOC classification:

QA246 .D75 2003

Contents:

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

Summary: 20 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition features updates from the author and a foreword by actor and director, Simon McBurney.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Perpustakaan MBIP Medini Processing Center	Non-Fiction book	512.72 MDS 2023 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index

20 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition features updates from the author and a foreword by actor and director, Simon McBurney.

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