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I know us mathematicians don’t generally have to do much reading of books so hopefully it will be nice to hear that the book is written in a conversational, digestible way that makes it a fairly light read – I read it on holiday. When I was finding books for my personal statement, the books “about maths” were all very readable and were more for personal interest. When looking at the other kind of maths books, I would recommend sitting at a desk and working through the problems presented and any exercises at the ends of chapters. Prime numbers are those integers which can only be divided without remainder by themselves (or of course by 1). Put another way, as du Sautoy does, prime numbers are the atoms from which all other numbers are composed. 1, 2, 3, and 5 are prime. 4 is merely 2 x 2; and 6 is 2 x 3. 10 is 2 x 5. Prime numbers constitute the periodic table of mathematical elements which can be mixed and matched to form molecules and compounds of enormous size and complexity. Lccn 2004270176 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL3319126M Openlibrary_edition Gauss's guess was based on throwing a dice with one side marked "prime" and the others all blank. The number of sides on the dice increases as we test larger numbers and Gauss discovered that the logarithm function could tell him the number of sides needed. For example, to test primes around 1,000 requires a six-sided dice. To make his guess at the number of primes, Gauss assumed that a

The fun arises because although mathematicians know primes occur less and less frequently as we progress up the scale of numbers, no one knows how to predict when the next one will be encountered. They can be, and have been, calculated to very large numbers indeed, but they can’t be anticipated, only recognised once they appear.* Or should the term be ‘revealed’? Las lenguas mueren, pero las ideas matemáticas no. Inmortalidad quizá sea una palabra ingenua, pero un matemático tiene más probabilidades que cualquier otro ser humano de alcanzar lo que aquella palabra designa. Keating, Jonathan P. (June 2004), "Review of The Music of the Primes", Physics Today, 57 (6): 63, doi: 10.1063/1.1784279 Hoffman, Jascha (April–May 2004), "Prime time (review of Prime Obsession, The Riemann Hypothesis, and The Music of the Primes)", Boston Review Marcus is very good at clarifying scientific concepts, he explains the Riemann Hypothesis really well that you grasp the core of it even if you're not a mathematician. i remember i came across the Riemann Hypothesis before reading this book and i tried to understand it by reading its Wikipedia related articles several times, but without having the slightest of idea about it! not until i read this book i understood what it is really about and realized how big its potential is.

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There is a good reason for the religious, even spiritual, interpretation of mathematics - particularly number theory, and especially prime numbers. In the first instance, unlike any other area of human inquiry - even theology - the results obtained in mathematics never change. Euclid’s proofs may be superseded by more general analysis but they are nevertheless entirely correct and need no modification in a world of radically different cosmology and technology.Prime numbers and their distribution have always been one of the more interesting subjects to talk about. This book takes you through the whole journey of starting out with finding the first few prime numbers to trying to find a pattern on how primes are spread through the universe of natural numbers. The list of protagonists include Euclid, Euler, Gauss, Riemann, Polignac, Hilbert, Hardy, Littlewood, Ramanujan, Godel, Turing to name a few. Naturally, the book focuses on one of the most important conjectures ever : The Riemann Hypothesis. One of the great symphonic works of mathematics is the Riemann Hypothesis - humankind's attempt to understand the mysteries of the primes. Each generation has brought its own cultural influences to bear on its understanding of the primes. The themes twist and modulate as we try to master these wild numbers. But this is an unfinished symphony. We still await the mathematician who can add the final