Prime Obsession
Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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Publisher Description
In August of 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a 32-year old mathematician, posed a deceptively simple question to the Berlin Academy: Is there a general rule for figuring out how many prime numbers there are? More than 150 years later, the solution to this critical problem eludes our grasp.
Alternating chapters of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.
Customer Reviews
Terrific both biographically and mathematically.
One of my all time favorite books of any genre. As a longtime mathematician and teacher, I found this book extremely well written. The mathematical explanations, for the most part, did not require anything other higher than high school level mathematics. It is also an engaging and informative biographical and historic work.