PRIME NUMBERS AND THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS by Barry Mazur, William Stein ( 9781107499430 )

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PRIME NUMBERS AND THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS

By:

Barry Mazur, William Stein

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 April, 2016

Pages:

150

Description:

This book introduces prime numbers and explains the famous unsolved Riemann hypothesis.

Synopsis:

Prime numbers are beautiful, mysterious, and beguiling mathematical objects. The mathematician Bernhard Riemann made a celebrated conjecture about primes in 1859, the so-called Riemann hypothesis, which remains one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics. Through the deep insights of the authors, this book introduces primes and explains the Riemann hypothesis. Students with a minimal mathematical background and scholars alike will enjoy this comprehensive discussion of primes. The first part of the book will inspire the curiosity of a general reader with an accessible explanation of the key ideas. The exposition of these ideas is generously illuminated by computational graphics that exhibit the key concepts and phenomena in enticing detail. Readers with more mathematical experience will then go deeper into the structure of primes and see how the Riemann hypothesis relates to Fourier analysis using the vocabulary of spectra. Readers with a strong mathematical background will be able to connect these ideas to historical formulations of the Riemann hypothesis.

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110 b/w illus. 132 colour illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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