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For 150 years the Riemann hypothesis has been the holy grail of mathematics. Now, at a moment when mathematicians are finally moving in on a proof, Dartmouth professor Dan Rockmore tells the riveting history of the hunt for a solution. In 1859 German professor Bernhard Riemann postulated a... read more
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- Riemann: Add a description of this character.
- Hilbert
- Dyson
- Sarnak
- Selberg
- Tracy
- Cramer
- Deift
- Odlyzko
- Diaconis
- Dirichlet
- Montgomery
- Poincare
- Widom
- Legendre
- Hadamard
- Gauss
- Ulam
- Weil
- Cohen
- Berry
- Siegel
- Peter
- Polya
- Dedekind
- Euler
- Rademacher
- Einstein
- De La Vallee-poussin
- Johansson
- Hermite
- Nash
- Richter
- Bohr
- Godel
- Stieltjes
- Littlewood
- Paul
- Hardy
- Gaudin
- Landau
- Mobius
- Mosteller
- Feynman
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- Princeton
- Euclid
- France
- Berlin
- New York City
- Kostelec
- Egypt
- Gottingen
- United States
- Germany
- New Jersey
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daniel N. Rockmore (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 037542136X
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 037542136X
Page Count: 304
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- Dewey: 511
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