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

In the tradition of Fermat's Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engaging story of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest to capture 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 I had started." Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman, writes, "This fascinating account, decoding the inscrutable language of the mathematical priesthood, is written like the purest poetry.

Marcus du Sautoy's enthusiasm shines through every line of this hymn to the joy of high intelligence, illuminating as it does so even the darkest corners of his most arcane universe."

Author: Marcus Du Sautoy
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/14/2012
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780062064011

About the Author
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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.