Prime Obsession : Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
, by Derbyshire, JohnNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780452285255 | 0452285259
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/25/2004
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 Obsessionis a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.