Prime Obsession
by Derbyshire, John
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Russell Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FORT776776
- Title
- Prime Obsession
- Author
- Derbyshire, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1