Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis

副标题: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers (Vintage)

ISBN: 9780375727726

出版社: Vintage

出版年: 2006-05-09

页数: 304

定价: USD 14.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

For 150 years the Riemann hypothesis has been the holy grail of mathematics. Now, at a moment when mathematicians are finally moving in on a proof, Dartmouth professor Dan Rockmore tells the riveting history of the hunt for a solution.

In 1859 German professor Bernhard Riemann postulated a law capable of describing with an amazing degree of accuracy the occurrence of the prime numbers. Rockmore takes us all the way from Euclid to the mysteries of quantum chaos to show how the Riemann hypothesis lies at the very heart of some of the most cutting-edge research going on today in physics and mathematics.