Prime Obsession Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Name: Prime Obsession Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780452285255

ISBN-10: 0452285259

ISBN-13: 9780452285255

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Derbyshire

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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 Hyphothesis 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 Obsessionis a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.96" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Prologue



The Prime Number Theorem



Card Trick



The Soil, the Crop



The Prime Number Theorem



On the Shoulders of Giants



Riemann's Zeta Function



The Great Fusion



The Golden Key, and an Improved Prime Number Theorem



Not Altogether Unworthy



Domain Stretching



A Proof and a Turning Point



The Riemann Hypothesis



Nine Zulu Queens Ruled China



Hilbert's Eighth Problem



The Argument Ant and the Value Ant



In the Grip of an Obsession



Big Oh and Mobius Mu



Climbing the Critical Line



A Little Algebra



Number Theory Meets Quantum Mechanics



Turning the Golden Key



The Riemann Operator and Other Approaches



The Error Term



Either It's True, or Else It Isn't


Epilogue


Notes



The Riemann Hypothesis in Song


Picture Credits


Index