Prime Obsession

Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Book Details:

Publisher:	Plume
Series:	MIX
Author:	John Derbyshire
Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0452285259
ISBN-13:	9780452285255

Pages:	448
Published:	May 25 2004
Posted:	Nov 19 2014
Language:	English
Book format:	PDF
Book size:	14.7 MB

Book 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 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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