Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Sunday, August 2 2009.

• In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hyphothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it. Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: John Derbyshire: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Thursday, July 16 2009.

• In August 1859, Bernhard Riemann was made a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy, a great honor for a young mathematician (he was 32).