John Derbyshire

Prime Obsession

Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

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Produktbeschreibung

The definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin US / Plume
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780452285255
• ISBN-10: 0452285259
• Artikelnr.: 20963668

Autorenporträt

John Derbyshire

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I: The Prime Number Theorem
Chapter 1: Card Trick
Chapter 2: The Soil, the Crop
Chapter 3: The Prime Number Theorem
Chapter 4: On the Shoulders of Giants
Chapter 5: Riemann's Zeta Function
Chapter 6: The Great Fusion
Chapter 7: The Golden Key, and an Improved Prime Number Theorem
Chapter 8: Not Altogether Unworthy
Chapter 9: Domain Stretching
Chapter 10: A Proof and a Turning Point
Part II: The Riemann Hypothesis
Chapter 11: Nine Zulu Queens Ruled China
Chapter 12: Hilbert's Eighth Problem
Chapter 13: The Argument Ant and the Value Ant
Chapter 14: In the Grip of an Obsession
Chapter 15: Big Oh and M