Prime Obsession
by John Derbyshire
The Riemann Hypothesis with alternating chapters of history and real math for readers willing to work. The most mathematical of the popular accounts.
Read it if…
you want to actually understand the hypothesis.
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Skip it if…
you want story only; see du Sautoy.
Try instead: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea →
Three things you will actually use
- Work through it.
- Zeta encodes the primes.
- Effort pays.
Do this first
Read the odd-numbered math chapters slowly.
Our verdict
Derbyshire's Riemann.
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