In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, wrote an eight-page article, suggesting an answer to a problem that had long puzzled mathematicians. For the next 150 years, the world's mathematicians have longed to confirm the Riemann hypothesis. So great is the interest in its solution that in 2001, an American foundation offered a million-dollar prize to the first person to demonstrate that the hypothesis is correct. Karl Sabbagh's book paints vivid portraits of the mathematicians who spend their days and nights on the race to solve the problem.
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Popular science fans: readers of Simon Singh's The Code Book and Fermat's Last Theorem; Sylvia Nasser's A Beautiful Mind, the books of Stephen Hawking, Ian Stewart and Martin Rees.
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a nice appetizer,
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This review is from: Dr.Riemann's Zeros (Paperback)
On the cover of the book Ian Stewart writes: 'a pleasurable and painless read for anyone intrigued by numbers', this is indeed true. It means it is well written, the author has done his homework and his writing style is quite enjoyable. But don't expect how to calculate yourself the zeros of the zeta function neither to get the necessary background in higher maths (the appendices are mostly elementary maths except De Brange's "proof"). The author modestly admits himself his knowledge of maths is not sufficient.
Is this a bad book? Not at all, I think you can compare it with "The music of the primes" by Marcus du Sautoy and I prefer the style of Karl Sabbagh rather than the pompous "I'm so clever" Marcus du Sautoy-style. To conclude: a nice appetizer but don't expect the real meal p.s. There are also some minor errors e.g. on page 20 line 6, the author mentions 99 sums but he means 99 products, there is also a weird repetition of text on p.78.
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