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The music of the primes

searching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics

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  • 4.00 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 24 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
335

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Music of the Primes
The Music of the Primes
2012, Harper Perennial
Paperback
Cover of: La symphonie des nombres premiers
La symphonie des nombres premiers
2011, H. d'Ormesson
in French
Cover of: L'enigma dei numeri primi
L'enigma dei numeri primi
2005, BUR
in Italian - 2a ed.
Cover of: L'enigma dei numeri primi
Cover of: The Music of the Primes
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
April 27, 2004, Harper Perennial
in English
Cover of: The Music of the Primes
The Music of the Primes
September 6, 2004, HarperPerennial
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Music of the Primes
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
April 27, 2004, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
Cover of: The music of the primes
The music of the primes: searching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics
2003, HarperCollins
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Who wants to be a millionaire?
The atoms of arithmetic
Riemann's imaginary mathematical looking-glass
The Riemann Hypothesis: From random primes to orderly zeros
The mathematical relay race: Realising Riemann's revolution
Ramanujan, the mathematical mystic
Mathematical exodus: From Göttingen to Princeton
Machines of the mind
The computer age: From the mind to the desktop
Cracking numbers and codes
From orderly zeros to quantum chaos
The missing piece of the jigsaw.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
512/.72
Library of Congress
QA246 .D75 2003, QA246.D75 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
335 p. :
Number of pages
335

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3319126M
Internet Archive
musicofprimessea00dusa
ISBN 10
0066210704
LCCN
2004270176
OCLC/WorldCat
52170315
Library Thing
15115
Goodreads
1176404

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