Prime Obsession (Paperback)
$15.94 - Save $1.06 (6%) - RRP $17.00 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Prime Obsession 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.
Full description- Publisher: PLUME
- Published: 01 June 2004
- Format: Paperback 448 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Number Theory | Geometry | Algebraic Geometry | History Of Mathematics | History Of Science
- ISBN 13: 9780452285255 ISBN 10: 0452285259
- Sales rank: 37,012
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Full description for Prime Obsession
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.
