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File Format | PDF
File Size | 1.52 MB
Pages | 291
Language | English
Category | Mathematics
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Description: 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
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Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math
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