Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math

A fascinating journey into the mind-bending world of prime numbersCicadas of the genus Magicicada appear once every...
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Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math by Wells, David

Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math

$81.43

Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math

$81.43
Author: David Wells
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A fascinating journey into the mind-bending world of prime numbers
Cicadas of the genus Magicicada appear once every 7, 13, or 17 years. Is it just a coincidence that these are all prime numbers? How do twin primes differ from cousin primes, and what on earth (or in the mind of a mathematician) could be sexy about prime numbers? What did Albert Wilansky find so fascinating about his brother-in-law's phone number?
Mathematicians have been asking questions about prime numbers for more than twenty-five centuries, and every answer seems to generate a new rash of questions. In Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math, you'll meet the world's most gifted mathematicians, from Pythagoras and Euclid to Fermat, Gauss, and Erd?o?s, and you'll discover a host of unique insights and inventive conjectures that have both enlarged our understanding and deepened the mystique of prime numbers. This comprehensive, A-to-Z guide covers everything you ever wanted to know--and much more that you never suspected--about prime numbers, including:
* The unproven Riemann hypothesis and the power of the zeta function
* The Primes is in P algorithm
* The sieve of Eratosthenes of Cyrene
* Fermat and Fibonacci numbers
* The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
* And much, much more

Author: David Wells
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 05/18/2005
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781620458242

About the Author
DAVID WELLS is the author of numerous books of mathematical puzzles and general math, including You Are a Mathematician, also available from Wiley. He has contributed articles to The Mathematical Intelligencer and The Mathematical Gazette. Wells lives in London, England.

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