Full name: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Author: John Derbyshire Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780452285255

In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hypothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it. Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world. Similar books: An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin Journey through Genius by William Dunham The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg Men Of Mathematics by Eric Temple Bell e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor The Artist and the Mathematician by Amir D. Aczel God Created the Integers by Stephen Hawking The Math Book by Clifford A. Pickover Poincare's Prize by George G. Szpiro A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy The Man of Numbers by Keith Devlin by John Allen Paulos The Joy of Pi by David Blatner A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson Einstein's Mistakes by Hans C. Ohanian Unknown Quantity by John Derbyshire The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feynman