Ivars Peterson's MathTrek - The Mark of Zeta
Ivars Peterson's MathTrek June 21, 1999 The Mark of Zeta It is a curious fact about the human mind that people will work harder to do something which captures their imagination than they will for any practical purpose, mathematician Ian Richards of the University of Minnesota once commented. Mathematicians exhibit such a fascination when they delve into the mysteries of prime numbers. A prime ...
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