2003-09-09
... ?Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Notes and numbers
The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy - 352p, Fourth Estate, £18.99 Even after millennia of intense mathematical work, no one has been able to identify a pattern among these numbers. A tantalising insight into the pattern was, however, produced almost 150 years ago by the great German mathematician Bernhard Riemann when he published a remarkable hypothesis, which - if true - says that the primes have music in them.
