The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy · Marcus du Sautoy
Popular history of the Riemann hypothesis by an Oxford mathematician, following Gauss, Riemann, Hardy, Ramanujan and later researchers. Readers come away understanding, without formal mathematics, why prime distribution is tied to the zeta zeros and why it matters for cryptography.
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