Re: Reading book about Riemann Hypothesis

On Oct 10, 2005 2:57 PM CT, jonathan.beckett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have just been writing in my blog about the book
> I'm currently
> reading - url below...
>
> http://www.wellybog.com/index.php?entryid=35
>
> ... just wondered if anybody else has read anything
> interesting about it. This book appears to be more
> about the "story" than the hypothesis or solution
> itself.

There's a solution for the Riemann hypothesis?!? :-P

I haven't read K. Sabbagh's book on the RH, but I have
read J. Derbyshire's book on it. I also read another
coffee shop book on the subject called "The Music of the
Primes" or something like that (I forget whom the author
was).

Either way, these kinds of books that you can get at
Barnes & Noble will always be more about the history
rather than the actual mathematics.

I did find that M. Watkins' site on the RH is pretty
extensive:

http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/zeta/riemannhyp.htm .

I also found E. Bombieri's paper for Claymath pretty nice:

http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Riemann_Hypothesis/Official_Problem_Description.pdf .

There were a few more URL's that I ran into that I've
enjoyed, however they're on my home computer and I don't
have access to them right now.

I'm an undergraduate and the RH was one of the things
that sparked my interest in mathematics. There are a
lot of good texts & papers out there on the RH (most of
them I can't fully understand yet, and written by
people with unpronouncable names :-P). However, I need
to learn how to fish before I can even think of catching
such a fish.

Regards,
Kyle
.

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