The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy January 1, 2009Books, ScienceAlan Turing, cryptography, Fermat, Gauss, Hardy, history, hypothesis, Marcus du Sautoy, mathematics, number theory, prime numbers, Ramanujan, Riemann, RSA, theorem, unproved, zeta functionDan Sumption The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy is an interesting look at the history of mathematical discoveries surrounding the prime numbers. It’s a tough topic though, and the author’s attempts to make it more palatable to non-mathematicians sometimes backfire. Continue reading The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy →
