Hypothesis finxit.(Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis)(Book Review)

New Criterion | November 1, 2005| | Copyright

Dan Rockmore Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis. Pantheon Books, 296 pages, $25

The author of a pop-math book must decide, before he sets finger on keyboard, how much he is going to demand of his readers in the way of willingness to engage with actual mathematics. As is often the case in writing, what is easier for the author is more difficult for the reader, and vice versa. If, on the one hand, you decide to press your reader's nose to the grindstone, you can present pages of standard equations and calculations, and guide him through them. This is hard for the reader, ...

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