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The mystery that has confounded mathematicians for centuries is the riddle that surrounds the distribution of prime numbers. Primes are fundamental to mathematics; they are the basic blocks from which all other numbers can be built. Yet they seem to surface entirely randomly among the number line. But are primes truly random or is there some hidden pattern? It's the greatest unsolved problem of mathematics - and whoever cracks it will achieve mathematical immortality.In the 3 programs , Marcus du Sautoy investigates the fascinating story of great mathematicians including Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Alan Turing, who have all grappled with the problem of primes. Filmed on location in Princetown, Las Vegas, Athens, Madras, London, Cambridge and Gottingen in Germany, Marcus talks to some of the world's leading mathematicians who have been listening to 'the music'. Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics at All Souls', Oxford. He is the author of the book, "The Music of the Primes", upon which this series is based.
The mystery that has confounded mathematicians for centuries is the riddle that surrounds the distribution of prime numbers. Primes are fundamental to mathematics; they are the basic blocks from which all other numbers can be built. Yet they seem to surface entirely randomly among the number line. But are primes truly random or is there some hidden pattern? It's the greatest unsolved problem of mathematics - and whoever cracks it will achieve mathematical immortality.In the 3 programs , Marcus du Sautoy investigates the fascinating story of great mathematicians including Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Alan Turing, who have all grappled with the problem of primes. Filmed on location in Princetown, Las Vegas, Athens, Madras, London, Cambridge and Gottingen in Germany, Marcus talks to some of the world's leading mathematicians who have been listening to 'the music'. Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics at All Souls', Oxford. He is the author of the book, "The Music of the Primes", upon which this series is based.
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