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

Mathematics History

Author: John Derbyshire

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 Hypothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first per….Read More

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