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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire (Joseph Henry, 304 pp., $27.95)

This is a striking and brilliant book, in many ways the most ambitious science-for-the-public attempt I have ever read. John Derbyshire undertakes a task which is (we are more or less convinced by the end) impossible, and yet the book succeeds, and at its best it is beautiful. It reads as if it were written not merely by a mathematics sch...

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