Edition |
First American edition. |
Description |
340 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328) and index. |
Contents |
Prime time. -- "Gorgeous stuff" -- New numbers for old. -- Indian summer. -- "Very probably" -- Proofs and refutations. -- The Bieberbach conjecture. -- In search of zeros. -- The Princeton tea party. -- A driven man. -- The physics of mathematics. -- A laudable aim. -- "No simple matter" -- Discovered or invented? -- "What's it all about?" -- Toolkits. Logarithms and exponents ; Equations ; Infinite series ; The Euler identity ; Graphs in math ; Matrices and eigenvalues. -- Appendix: De Branges's proof. |
Subject |
Numbers, Prime.
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Number theory.
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Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866.
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ISBN |
0374250073 |
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