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

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

Derbyshire, John

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Mathematics

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0452285259
ISBN13: 9780452285255
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: May 25 2004
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.38 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
The definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world.

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

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