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Loading... Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbersby Dan Rockmore
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Aiming at mass understandability is one thing, but this book is too formula- and equation-phobic for its own good (clarity suffers). The need for it is questionable, considering the three other popular books on the RH that came out a couple of years ago. Still, any math book is better than no math book. no reviews | add a review
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For 150 years the Riemann hypothesis has been the holy grail of mathematics. Now, at a moment when mathematicians are finally moving in on a proof, Dartmouth professor Dan Rockmore tells the riveting history of the hunt for a solution.In 1859 German professor Bernhard Riemann postulated a law capable of describing with an amazing degree of accuracy the occurrence of the prime numbers. Rockmore takes us all the way from Euclid to the mysteries of quantum chaos to show how the Riemann hypothesis lies at the very heart of some of the most cutting-edge research going on today in physics and mathematics. No library descriptions found. |
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