Du Sautoy, Marcus

THE MUSIC O THE PRIMES : Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters / Marcus du Sautoy - Fourth estate paperback edition. - xiii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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

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.

9781841155807 paperback 0066210704 9780066210704

2004270176


Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866


Numbers, Prime

QA246 / .D75 2003

512.72 / MDS