Book ID: CBB000470014

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003)

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Derbyshire, John (Author)


Joseph Henry Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xv + 422 pp.; ill.; index
Language: English

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Review Colyvan, Mark (2005) Review of "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 78). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Yan, Chenguang
Ferraro, Giovanni
Deng, Mingli
Lê, François
Yamada, Sumio
D'Isanto, Paolo
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
Kexue Jishu Zhexue Yanjiu (Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology)
Publishers
Springer
Pantheon Books
Atlantic Books
Aracne
Concepts
Mathematics
Sequences and series (mathematics)
Physics
Number theory; number concept
Prime numbers
Algebra
People
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Mengoli, Pietro
Leonardo da Pisa
Time Periods
19th century
Medieval
18th century
Ancient
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Poland
China
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