Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis

Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis

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Publisher's 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781107499430
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 512.73
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 150
Weight: 240g
Height: 155mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 13mm