The Music of the Primes

In the tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engaging story of Bernhard Riemann and the ongoing quest to capture the holy grail of mathematics — the formula to predict prime numbers.

Endorsements

"An amazing book... I could not put it down once I had started." — Oliver Sacks

"This fascinating account, decoding the inscrutable language of the mathematical priesthood, is written like the purest poetry. Marcus du Sautoy's enthusiasm shines through every line of this hymn to the joy of high intelligence, illuminating as it does even the darkest corners of his most arcane universe." — Simon Winchester