Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Italian Willie Juan

Willie Juan

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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Italian Willie JuanIn August 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a little known 32 year old mathematician, presented a paper to the Berlin Academy titled: "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." In the middle of that paper, Riemann made an incidental remark a guess, a hypothesis. What he tossed out to the assembled mathematicians that day has proven to be almost cruelly compelling to countless scholars in the ensuing years. Today, after 150 years of careful