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This book presents the Riemann Hypothesis, connected problems, and a taste of the body of theory developed towards its solution. It is targeted at the educated non-expert. Almost all the material is accessible to any senior mathematics student, and much is accessible to anyone with some university mathematics.

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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 law capable of describing with an amazing degree of accuracy the occurrence of the prime numbers. Rockmore takes us all the way from Euclid to the mysteries of quantum chaos to show how the Riemann hypothesis lies at the very heart of some of the most cutting-edge research going on today in physics and mathematics. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (14)

Lacks clarity and focus
I don't know what it is with the latest books trying to popularize certain branches of contemporary and modern science, but it seems to me that poetic and decorated language now sells better than scientific clarity and educational value. This book serves more as a general overview into a wide range of more or less related open and solved problems in mathematics and physics rather than an interesting introduction into the problem of prime number distribution and the Riemann hypothesis. The many analogies, which are often explained in too much detail, do not only distract from the main topic, but often lack a considerable amount of relevance. In several cases they don't even lead to any meaningful conclusion for the particular problem at hand. Near the end of the book, the author somewhat succeeds to "close the circle", but overall this work leaves much to be desired. In my opinion a great opportunity to explain the book's topic to a general audience was missed.

Not surprising to read other reviews here
How do you write a book about mathematics and numbers without any? I got lost in the sea of abstract forced analogies and ended up more confused, irritated, and lost than I had when I began reading the book. 80 pages into the book, I give up and will read Derbyshire's book, about which I have read good things.

Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician by training but have a science/engineering background. Even if I did not understand all the details, I had hoped the book would at least grip my attention and make me want to learn more.

What a contrast (and a frustrating one at that) attempting to read this book was...especially considering I just finished reading QED - The strange theory of light and matter by Richard Feynman. There couldn't be two contrasting writing styles!

A diverging book!
I felt very irritated by reading this book. Many analogies and side stories lead to loose the focused main subject. Stories always diverge, never converge to any meaningful understanding. Avoiding equations and narrative description of the content of equations rather makes even difficult to understand. Simply showing equations is much better. A very badly organized poor book

forget it
This wasn't any good as a hardback and reissuing it
in paperback doesn't change matters.
To get an idea of what you are in for, see the reviews
of the hardback version.
Bottom line: don't waste your money.

Sniffing is really Asymmetrical Time Reversal
You can see why the Riemann Hypothesis allegedly led to John Nash's label of mental instability.This book is the best math book out there and it's definitely out there.All the best mathematicians should go insane but then hopefully make it back to acceptable society (without having to undergo secret CIA drug experiments like the Unabomber did at Harvard).

And so we STALK -- but what exactly?That's the point isn't it? (to conjure up Dedekind, Godel, Cantor, and so many other greats that challenged the norms of demented ecstasy).

I think the grand message of this book is that not only do we get a very clear and concise overview of the whole history of mathematics but in the end we find out that the logic on which math is based is totally a mystery.

Call it the "abduction" logic, as created by C.S. Pierce (a sort of intuitive inference).Nevertheless the promo by Professor Strogatz (on the first edition) calls the Riemann Hypothesis a conspiracy which F.W. Schelling would say is totally accurate -- a great spiral of asymmetrical time reversal arising out of pure empty awareness.

It appears that math has always been a spectator sport, that the grand paradoxes created by Euler really were proofs for God, that all the power based on math really is an illusion. ... Read more

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This book unlocks the mystery of Riemann Hypothesis in simple high school mathematics. The author emphasizesreal world applications and initiates the solution based on real analysis and technical basis rather than complex(and imaginary) mathematics. By little discipline, anybodywith mathematics proficiency, with the help of knowledge revealed in this book, can attain the leadership position in digital age. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

I don't know what is the aim of the writer writing that book!!!!
When I received the book, I felt excited.
But how disappointed I am when I open the book.
This book just packed with equations without explanation
and how the equations are derived. To simplify my comment:
if you should know how to derive those equations,
your mathamatical knowledge is much higher than requiring
that book, if you do not know what these equations are,
then you should not read this book. So I cannot suggest
a reason to buy this book !!!!! ... Read more

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The first proof of the Collatz Conjecture. ... Read more

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Citation Details
Title: Hypothesis finxit.(Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis)(Book Review)
Author: John Derbyshire
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24Issue: 3Page: 71(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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These notes present recent results in the value-distribution theory of L-functions with emphasis on the phenomenon of universality. In 1975, Voronin proved that any non-vanishing analytic function can be approximated uniformly by certain shifts of the Riemann zeta-function in the critical strip. This spectacular universality property has a strong impact on the zero-distribution: Riemanns hypothesis is true if and only if the Riemann zeta-function can approximate itself uniformly (in the sense of Voronin). Meanwhile universality is proved for a large zoo of Dirichlet series, and it is conjectured that all reasonable L-functions are universal. In these notes we prove universality for polynomial Euler products. Our approach follows mainly Bagchi's probabilistic method. We further discuss related topics as, e.g., almost periodicity, density estimates, Nevanlinna theory, and functional independence.