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" The music of the primes : "
Marcus du Sautoy.
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BL
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946911
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b701281
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| Main Entry
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Du Sautoy, Marcus.
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The music of the primes : : searching to solve the greatest mystery in mathematics /\ Marcus du Sautoy.
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1st Perennial ed.
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New York :: Perennial,, 2004.
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335 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm
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0060935588
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: 9780060935580
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.
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| Contents
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Who wants to be a millionaire? -- The atoms of arithmetic -- Riemann's imaginary mathematical looking-glass -- The Riemann Hypothesis: From random primes to orderly zeros -- The mathematical relay race: Realising Riemann's revolution -- Ramanujan, the mathematical mystic -- Mathematical exodus: From Göttingen to Princeton -- Machines of the mind -- The computer age: From the mind to the desktop -- Cracking numbers and codes -- From orderly zeros to quantum chaos -- The missing piece of the jigsaw.
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Examines German mathematician Bernhard Riemann's hypothesis on imaginary numbers, sine waves, and prime numbers and attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding it.
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Riemann, Bernhard,1826-1866.
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Riemann, Bernhard,1826-1866
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Numbers, Prime.
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Forschung
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Numbers, Prime.
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Primzahl
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Riemannsche Vermutung
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| Dewey Classification
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512/.72
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QA246.D75 2004
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SK 180rvk
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