Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics.(Book Review)

Science News | August 2, 2003 | Copyright

JOHN DERBYSHIRE

Nearly 150 years ago, Bernhard Riemann posed a deceptively simple question to his peers at the Berlin Academy: Is there a general rule for figuring out how many prime numbers there are up to a given number? Three years ago, the Clay Institute agreed to award a million dollars to the person who can prove Riemann's hypothesis, which states that there is such a general rule. Derbyshire provides the historical ...

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