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The music of the primes : searching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics / Marcus du Sautoy.

Du Sautoy, Marcus. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0066210704
  • Physical Description: 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, [2003]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 Göttingen 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.
Subject: Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866.
Numbers, Prime.

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