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Book Review: Prime Obsession

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics is a book about the Riemann Hypothesis, posed by Bernhard Riemann in 1859. As the book title says, it is one of the greatest unsettled mathematical conjectures remaining today. It is among David Hilbert’s list of twenty-three mathematical problems and one of the seven [...]

Book review: The Pleasures of Counting

The Pleasures of Counting is a book about people working with mathematics and challenges they have faced. The book has 544 pages with a total of 19 chapters and 3 appendices. It contains a lot of material and is split into five parts: The uses of abstraction, Meditations on measurement, The pleasures of computation, Enigma [...]