Thanks for the tip, Ian. I've ordered from Amazon on your recommendation. Other books by Marcus de Sautoy listed by Amazon...
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature Zeta Functions of Groups and Rings (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) ...which suggests he is an academic rather than a journalist like Simon Singh, who's famous for his gripping reads on Fermat's Last Theorem, and cracking codes. Ian Clark On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Ian Gorse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Has anyone else read this... ? > > The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters > by Marcus du Sautoy > > I found the book extremely fascinating and have immediately started to > re-read it again after finishing it. > > The book is basically a mathematical history novel on famous mathematicians > on who has studied the prime numbers and their success and fails. > The book focuses on the Riemann hypothesis but it talks about various other > famous mathematical discoveries regarding Number Theory. Its a very easy read > and as someone who is not mathematically inclined, I found it a joy to > continue to the next page. > > I think most of the J community would find it interesting if you haven't read > it before. > > I am just wondering if anyone has any recommended books similar to the > writing of The Music of the Primes? I am definitely going to look into more > work from Marcus du Sautoy. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
