Book:Marcus du Sautoy/The Music of the Primes

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Marcus du Sautoy: The Music of the Primes

Published $\text {2003}$, Harper Collins

ISBN 1 84115 580 2


Contents

1 Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
2 The Atoms of Arithmetic
3 Riemann's Imaginary Mathematical Looking-Glass
4 The Riemann Hypothesis: From Random Primes to Orderly Zeros
5 The Mathematical Relay Race: Realising Riemann's Revolution
6 Ramanujan, the Mathematical Mystic
7 Mathematical Exodus: From Göttingen to Princeton
8 Machines of the Mind
9 The Computer Age: From the Mind to the Desktop
10 Cracking Numbers and Codes
11 From Orderly Zeros to Quantum Chaos
12 The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Illustration and Text Credits
Index