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Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia. Every school student studies prime numbers and can appreciate their beauty, and yet mathematicians' difficulty with answering some seemingly simple questions about them reveals the depth and subtlety of prime numbers.
Vicky Neale charts the recent progress towards proving the famous Twin Primes Conjecture, and the very different ways in which the breakthroughs have been made: a solo mathematician working in isolation and obscurity, and a large collaboration that is more public than any previous collaborative effort in mathematics and that reveals much about how mathematicians go about their work. Interleaved with this story are highlights from a significantly older tale, going back two thousand years and more, of mathematicians' efforts to comprehend the beauty and unlock the mysteries of the prime numbers.
- ISBN13 9780198788287
- ISBN10 0198788282
- Pàgines 164
- Any Edició 2026
- Fecha de publicación 13/05/2026
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers (Alemany, Francès)
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- Oxford University Press (2026)
- 9780198788287



