Taking It Further: Books & Weblinks
Count yourself in
Want to search for the patterns yourself? Open Univesity courses could offer one way of taking it further.
Primed radio
BBC Radio 4's The Material World featured prime numbers in December 2004. Follow the discussion as guests start talking primes.
Prime and reason
There's an infinite number of them, they keep you safe and could earn you a fortune. Sample a prime primer.
Want more? Why not sample some great words about numbers? Or scroll down to get some carefully chosen weblinks.
Books
The Music of the Primes
Marcus DuSautoy, 4th Estate
Marcus' book, which inspired the programme.
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
John Derbyshire, Joseph Henry Press
Derbyshire mixes maths, history and biography to get inside the mind which developed the theory.
Fermat's Last Theorem
Simon Singh, 4th Estate
Simon's story of the work cracking a 17th Century mathematical condundrum was a breakthrough in its own right, being the first book about maths to top the best sellers' list.
The Code Book
Simon Singh, 4th Estate
If the Riemann Hypothesis is the modern face of encryption, it's part of a pursuit that has been followed throughout human history, as Simon explains.
Weblinks
Elsewhere on Open2:
More Or Less - as Gregory Underwood observed, "numbers make the world go round", and he didn't know the half of it. Our collection of briefings and articles shows just how figures are at the heart of everything we do.
Ancient Maths - Almost as soon as humankind evolved, it started counting. Explore the earliest calculators and calculations.
From bbc.co.uk
Five Shapes - Marcus du Sautoy takes BBC Radio 4 off looking for shapes in the strangest places.
Five Numbers - Simon Singh explores some everyday and not so everyday figures, from 0 to 6.67 x 10 -11
Mind Games - Marcus du Sautoy challenges Kathy Sykes and guests to stretch their brains around some cerebal challenges.
Elsewhere on the web
Musicoftheprimes.com - The website of the book which inspired the programme.
Marcus DuSautoy - Marcus' homepage at Oxford University.
Beckham in his prime number - Marcus speculates on the link between David Beckham's Real Madrid squad number, and the cell Princess Leia was held in
E=Mc2 Survey - More Marcus; more football, as Mr. DuSautoy pulls on his shirt and puts Euclid into practice
Prime Time Mathematics - Professor Robin Wilson delivers a lecture for Gresham College on the search to prove the Riemann hypothesis.
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Content last updated: 13/09/2005
