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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. In August 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a little-known 32-year old mathematician, presented a paper to the Berlin Academy titled: "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." In the middle of that paper, Riemann made an incidental remark #DXAND...
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- Author
- Derbyshire, John
- Publisher
- Joseph Henry Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780452285255
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (2,346 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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