Prime numbers and the Riemann hypothesis

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Prime numbers and the Riemann hypothesis

Barry Mazur, William Stein

Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Prime numbers are beautiful, mysterious, and beguiling mathematical objects. The mathematician Bernhard Riemann made a celebrated conjecture about primes in 1859, the so-called Riemann hypothesis, which remains one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics. Through the deep insights of the authors, this book introduces primes and explains the Riemann hypothesis. Students with a minimal mathematical background and scholars alike will enjoy this comprehensive discussion of primes. The first part of the book will inspire the curiosity of a general reader with an accessible explanation of the key ideas. The exposition of these ideas is generously illuminated by computational graphics that exhibit the key concepts and phenomena in enticing detail. Readers with more mathematical experience will then go deeper into the structure of primes and see how the Riemann hypothesis relates to Fourier analysis using the vocabulary of spectra. Readers with a strong mathematical background will be able to connect these ideas to historical formulations of the Riemann hypothesis.

目次

  • 1. Thoughts about numbers
  • 2. What are prime numbers?
  • 3. 'Named' prime numbers
  • 4. Sieves
  • 5. Questions about primes
  • 6. Further questions about primes
  • 7. How many primes are there?
  • 8. Prime numbers viewed from a distance
  • 9. Pure and applied mathematics
  • 10. A probabilistic 'first' guess
  • 11. What is a 'good approximation'?
  • 12. Square root error and random walks
  • 13. What is Riemann's hypothesis?
  • 14. The mystery moves to the error term
  • 15. Cesaro smoothing
  • 16. A view of Li(X) - (X)
  • 17. The prime number theorem
  • 18. The staircase of primes
  • 19. Tinkering with the staircase of primes
  • 20. Computer music files and prime numbers
  • 21. The word 'spectrum'
  • 22. Spectra and trigonometric sums
  • 23. The spectrum and the staircase of primes
  • 24. To our readers of part I
  • 25. Slopes and graphs that have no slopes
  • 26. Distributions
  • 27. Fourier transforms: second visit
  • 28. Fourier transform of delta
  • 29. Trigonometric series
  • 30. A sneak preview
  • 31. On losing no information
  • 32. Going from the primes to the Riemann spectrum
  • 33. How many i's are there?
  • 34. Further questions about the Riemann spectrum
  • 35. Going from the Riemann spectrum to the primes
  • 36. Building (X) knowing the spectrum
  • 37. As Riemann envisioned it
  • 38. Companions to the zeta function.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB21400201
  • ISBN
    • 9781107499430
    • 9781107101920
  • LCCN
    2015018981
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 142 p.
  • 大きさ
    23-24 cm
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