Author | John Derbyshire |
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Language | English |
Subject | Mathematics, History of science |
Genre | Popular science |
Publisher | Joseph Henry Press |
Publication date | 2003 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 448 |
ISBN | 0-309-08549-7 |
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003) is a historical book on mathematics by John Derbyshire, detailing the history of the Riemann hypothesis, named for Bernhard Riemann, and some of its applications.
The book was awarded the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize in 2007.[1]