Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by Derbyshire, John
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- 9780452285255
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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 Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.
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- Title
- Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
- Author
- Derbyshire, John
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0452285259
- ISBN 13
- 9780452285255
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004-05-24
- Size
- 5x1x7
- X weight
- 13 oz
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