Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, (Paperback)

from BeesleSR

Well that was thoroughly enjoyable; John Derbyshire's 'Prime Obsession' recounts the story of the Riemann Hypothesis a piece of math that was brilliantly intuitive back in 1859 when Bernard Riemann first presented it and is still unproven despite being close to the heart of large swathes of Math ...

from cmdpilot

John Derbyshire has succeeded admirably in making the Riemann Hypothesis understandable to those of us who are not mathemeticians.He covers the prime number theorem and Riemann's zeta function a clear distinct fashion.

from jsburbidge

An excellent coverage of the Riemann Hypothesis for the non-mathematician.

from palaverofbirds

Seeing as how this is my first exposure to the RH, and I'm only fairly capable in math, I can't say whether or not this is the best place to start. I feel like I have a good sense about this great mathematical problem, which is due in part to Derbyshire's simple explanations. However, I think the...

from RandyStafford

"This isn't magic. There's a reason this stuff works," my high school math teacher used to say. Of course, there are some contentions, hypotheses, in math where we don't know if they work, if they are true. For professional mathematicians, one of the most important of these is the Riemann Hypothe...