Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Record no. 296007)
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fixed length control field | 01885nam a22001577a 4500 |
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International Standard Book Number | 9780452285255 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 512.72 DER-P |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | John Derbyshire |
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Title | Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | A Plume Book |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2003 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | xv, 422 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | Part I. The prime number theorem. Card trick -- The soil, the crop -- The prime number theorem -- On the shoulders of giants -- Riemann's zeta function -- The great fusion -- The golden key, and an improved prime number theorem -- Not altogether unworthy -- Domain stretching -- A proof and a turning point. Part II. The Riemann hypothesis. Nine Zulu queens ruled China -- Hilbert's eighth problem -- The argument ant and the value ant -- In the grip of an obsession -- Big oh and Mobius Mu -- Climbing the critical line -- A little algebra -- Number theory meets quantum mechanics -- Turning the golden key -- The Riemann operator and other approaches -- The error term -- Either it's true, or else it isn't. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | 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 Hyphothesis 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, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Riemann, Bernhard, -- 1826-1866. Riemann, Bernhard, -- 1826-1866 Numbers, Prime. |
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Koha item type | Book |
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Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 08/12/2015 | 512.72 DER-P | DCB1738 | 08/12/2015 | 19/07/2019 | Book |