The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics

du Sautoy, Marcus

ISBN 10: 0066210704 / ISBN 13: 9780066210704

Published by HarperCollins, New York, 2003

About this Item

8vo, 335 pp. Nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 114414

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
• Publisher: HarperCollins, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0066210704
• ISBN 13: 9780066210704
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

Inthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics—the formula to predict prime numbers.Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, calls TheMusic of the Primes “an amazing book. . . . I could not put it down once Ihad started.” Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman,writes, “this fascinating account, decoding the inscrutable language of themathematical priesthood, is written like the purest poetry. Marcus du Sautoy's enthusiasm shines through every line of this hymnto the joy of high intelligence, illuminating as it does so even the darkestcorners of his most arcane universe.”

About the Author

Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is a frequent contributor on mathematics to The Times, The Guardian, and the BBC, and he lives in London.