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The Music of the Primes

Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics

By Marcus Du Sautoy

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| Paperback | 9780060935580

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Book Description

In 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy that would forever change the history of mathematics. The subject was the mystery of prime numbers. At the heart of the presentation was an idea that Riemann had not yet proved but one that baffles mathematiciaContinue

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Million dollar question

The Music of the Primes: Why an unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters by Marcus du Sautoy Fourth Estate £18.99, pp314 While academic subjects such as science, history and psychology have successfully descended from the ivory towers, and turned abst ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Notes and numbers

The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy 352p, Fourth Estate, £18.99 In Paul Simon's 1983 song "When Numbers Get Serious", he drew attention to the common unease about the modern fixation with attaching numbers to things, even when it is downright ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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This is one of the best books about mathematics I have ever read. The author, Marcus Du Sautoy, a Math teacher at the Oxford University, is a great divulger, so everybody, reading his assay, can understand all the scientific notions which are contained in the book. It deals with one of the big-gest ... (continue)

This is one of the best books about mathematics I have ever read. The author, Marcus Du Sautoy, a Math teacher at the Oxford University, is a great divulger, so everybody, reading his assay, can understand all the scientific notions which are contained in the book. It deals with one of the big-gest unsolved problems of maths, that consists of finding an order to the sequence of the prime numbers. Du Sautoy makes the readers travel through the time and get very close to the most bril-liant minds that worked for long and with passion to solve this enigma. His great ability is to break the sequences that deal with a lot with mathematics inserting other kind of episodes, that general-ly describe a particular moment in the life of the protagonists, showing us their human and private aspects. In this way, the reading is never heavy, but it is lightened by these digressions. The writer can convey the enthusiasm of the mathematicians involved in this story and he got me much more interested and curious for the abstract world he described in his book.
(Sry for my bad English!)

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