In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity. Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hyphothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it.
Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.
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根据所受的教育,约翰·德比希尔(John Derbyshire)是一位数学家和语言学家;根据所从事的职业,他是一位系统分析师;而在业余时间,他是一位著名的作家。
他的成名作是《梦见柯立芝》(Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream),这部l996年出版的小说大受人们欢迎,亚德利(Jonathan Yardley)在《华盛顿邮报·图书世界》(Washington Post Book World)上对它赞赏有加,《纽约时报·书评》(The New York Times Book Review)、《纽约客》(The New Yorker)、《波士顿环球报》(The Bosun Globe)等报刊也一致给予好评。他的作品还频繁出现在《国家评论》(National Review)和《新标准》(The New Criterion)杂志上。
德比希尔在英国出生并成长.约20年前来到美国安家。他目前和妻子及两个孩子住在纽约的亨廷顿。
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