Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math Hardcover - 2005
by Wells, David
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- Title Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math
- Author Wells, David
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 290
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Trade Paper Press
- Date 2005-05-18
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1620458241.G
- ISBN 9781620458242 / 1620458241
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 512.723
From the rear cover
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 functionThe ""Primes is in P"" algorithmThe sieve of Eratosthenes of CyreneFermat and Fibonacci numbersThe Great Internet Mersenne Prime SearchAnd much, much more
