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In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled “On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity.” Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hypothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it. Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.
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Prime Obsession, John Derbyshire
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Prime Obsession
- Subtitle
- Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Derbyshire
- Publisher
- Plume
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN10
- 0452285259
- ISBN13
- 9780452285255
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Science & Math, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Science, Mathematics, Biographies, Series, Western Europe, Geometry, History of Science, Numbers, Mathematicians, History of Mathematics, Number Theory, Philosophy of Mathematics
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled “On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity.” Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hypothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it. Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.