The music of the primes : searching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Perennial 2004Description: 335 pISBN: 9780062064011Subject(s): Numbers, Prime | MathematicsLOC classification: QA246Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | ICTS | Mathematics | Rack No 4 | QA246 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 02553 |
1.Who wants to be a millionaire?;
2.The atoms of arithmetic;
3.Riemann's imaginary mathematical looking-glass;
4.The Riemann Hypothesis: From random primes to orderly zeros;
5.The mathematical relay race: Realising Riemann's revolution;
6.Ramanujan, the mathematical mystic;
7.Mathematical exodus: From Göttingen to Princeton;
8.Machines of the mind;
9.The computer age: From the mind to the desktop;
10.Cracking numbers and codes;
11.From orderly zeros to quantum chaos;
12.The missing piece of the jigsaw
Examines German mathematician Bernhard Riemann's hypothesis on imaginary numbers, sine waves, and prime numbers and attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding it.