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Article: Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers.(Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- May 28, 2005
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STALKING THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers
DAN ROCKMORE
The Greeks were the first to notice the difference between composite numbers, or those that can be broken down into groups of other numbers, and primes, those numbers that can't be divided by anything but 1 and themselves. In this math-dense but straightforward book, Rockmore explores the complex world of prime numbers, from Euclid's investigations on whether there are an infinite number of them to primes' role in computer communications and quantum physics. He reviews the long history of prime cartographers, including Adrien-Marie Legendre, Carl Freidrich ...