{"product_id":"prime-obsession-isbn-9780452285255","title":"Prime Obsession","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 Hyphothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it.\u003cp\u003eAlternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, \u003ci\u003ePrime Obsession\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.\u003c\/p\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: The Prime Number Theorem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Card Trick\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Soil, the Crop\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The Prime Number Theorem\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: On the Shoulders of Giants\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Riemann's Zeta Function\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The Great Fusion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: The Golden Key, and an Improved Prime Number Theorem\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Not Altogether Unworthy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Domain Stretching\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: A Proof and a Turning Point\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The Riemann Hypothesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Nine Zulu Queens Ruled China\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Hilbert's Eighth Problem\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: The Argument Ant and the Value Ant\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: In the Grip of an Obsession\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Big Oh and M\"Derbyshire’s attempt to take nonmathematicians into this subject had me on the edge of my seat.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riemann and his colleagues come to life as real characters and not just adjectives for conjectures and theorems.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOHN DERBYSHIRE is a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, where he writes a regular column. He also contributes regularly to National Review Online and writes frequently for a number of other publications, including the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Conservative\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to his opinion journalism, he writes on the subject of mathematics and is the author of the books \u003ci\u003ePrime Obsession\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnknown Quantity\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel, \u003ci\u003eSeeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, was chosen as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year. A native of England, Derbyshire now lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304060899557,"sku":"NP9780452285255","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452285255.jpg?v=1767735094","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/prime-obsession-isbn-9780452285255","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}