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Riemann Hypothesis and Prime Number Theorem; Comprehensive Reference, Guide and Solution Manual

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When I received the book, I felt excited.
But how disappointed I am when I open the book.
This book just packed with equations without explanation
and how the equations are derived. To simplify my comment:
if you should know how to derive those equations,
your mathamatical knowledge is much higher than requiring
that book, if you do not know what these equations are,
then you should not read this book. So I cannot suggest
a reason to buy this book !!!!!

The 5 star review must have been written by the author or his close relative. This book is simply a joke and does not deserve even a single star. It is not even worth the paper on which it is written on. If you want to read about Riemann Hypothesis, there are well written and accessible books written by experts in the field. For example, "Riemann's Zeta Function" by Harold M. Edwards. There are also a number of popular books such "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics" by John Derbyshire which are quite readable.

I'm in love with the Riemann Hypothesis.
I was just starting High School and I read Derbyshire's take on it and loved it. I've read many other takes on the problem and always liked the books, in most cases because of the mathematics, in other cases because of the literary value. I was VERY disappointed by this book, the author doesn't seem to know what he is talking about and it feels as if he read a few Wikipedia articles and tried to summarize what he poorly understood. I'm afraid I will return this book in a week or so, since I still have time. (Side note: Actually, after reading many reviews I tried to cancel the order but the system wouldn't allow it for some reason. It hadn't shipped yet)
Please spare yourself the time-consuming process of ordering and returning this book and try Keith Devlín's book as an introduction instead :).

This book was written by a charlatan without the slightest clue of what Riemann's Hypothesis and the Prime Number Theorem are.
Yet he used those terms as bait for the title of his book so that well meaning people and other fools would be attracted by the very topical subject matter and pay for the book.
It is a jumble of totally trivial mathematical formulae put together without rhyme or reason. A chimp typing at random would have come up with a better account of RH and the PNT.

As one reviewer notes the book by John Derbyshire (Prime Obsession) is the best if you are motivated but have little advanced mathematics education. Derbyshire does an excellent job
and will take you a long way into the meaning of RH and the PNT using fairly elementary mathematics.
The next level is the book by Harold Edwards, Riemanns Hypothesis, but you will need the first 3 semesters of Undergraduate Calculus, a course of Complex Variable Calculus and a course on Fourier Analysis to really take advantage of Edwards' marvelous book.