Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 3 October 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5642, pp. 60 - 61
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089660
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Books

MATHEMATICS:
Prime Time for the Riemann Hypothesis

A review by Brian Conrey

Prime Obsession Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by John Derbyshire
Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 438 pp. $27.95, C$37.95. ISBN 0-309-08549-7.

Derbyshire interweaves mathematical exposition intended to lead the lay reader to an understanding of the hypothesis and its importance with historical and bibliographical background material.
The reviewer is at the American Institute of Mathematics, 360 Portage Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2244, USA. E-mail: conrey{at}aimath.org

Read the Full Text

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)