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Prime numbers - those figures which refuse to be divided neatly by anything other than one and themselves - are surprisingly stubborn and persistent beasts. In The Music of the Primes, Marcus du Sa...utoy investigates the fascinating story of the great mathematicians - including Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, G.H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Alan Turing - who've grappled with the problem of the primes.
Prime numbers - those figures which refuse to be divided neatly by anything other than one and themselves - are surprisingly stubborn and persistent beasts. In The Music of the Primes, Marcus du Sa...utoy investigates the fascinating story of the great mathematicians - including Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, G.H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Alan Turing - who've grappled with the problem of the primes.
| Published: | 2007 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:41 |
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| Producer: | Emma De'ath |
| Presenter: | Marcus Du Sautoy |
| Contributor: | Marcus Du Sautoy |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/musicoftheprimes/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Mathematics; Numbers, Prime |
| Production number: | LAAK131B |
| Videofinder number: | 7278 |
| Available to public: | no |
