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Tuesday 31 August 2010

Review of Music Of The Primes

I've just finished a lovely, lovely book by Marcus du Sautoy on the history of the Reimann Hypothesis, one of the biggest problems in mathematics, ever...

..it's driven at least one person to madness, and taken a few to the borders.  It's the stuff that techno-thriller spy movies are made of (literally, see Sneakers) and has been implicated in at least one fatal duel and one national revolution.  It's been the subject of, and I kid you not, two Nobel Prize level practical jokes.
 Full review on my Cool Science Books blog...

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