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Loading... The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics (original 2003; edition 2003)by Marcus du Sautoy
Work InformationThe Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy (2003)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Some interesting biographical info about several of the key players. I didn't find the discussions of their work on primes that illuminating, however. It needed something akin to a "timeline of ideas" to show the various threads and how they were connected. ( ) We use prime numbers everyday, every internet transaction uses these for security, and de Sautoy here gives us a history of the prime number, from the very early Greek mathematicians, to the modern day. The primary focus of the book is the Reimann Hypothesis. Du Sautoy gives a very readable history of all the mathematicians who have looked at proving and trying to disprove this. Some of the maths was a bit beyond me, but I did enjoy having my brain stretched. no reviews | add a review
Inthe tradition of Fermat's Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics--the formula to predict prime numbers.Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, calls TheMusic of the Primes "an amazing book. . . . I could not put it down once Ihad started." Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman,writes, "this fascinating account, decoding the inscrutable language of themathematical priesthood, is written like the purest poetry. Marcus du Sautoy's enthusiasm shines through every line of this hymnto the joy of high intelligence, illuminating as it does so even the darkestcorners of his most arcane universe." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)512.723Natural sciences and mathematics Mathematics Algebra Number theoryLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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