Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

<b>The definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world.</b><br><br>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.<p>Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, <i>Prime Obsession</i> is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.</p>