Since 1859, when the shy German mathematician Bernhard Riemann wrote an eight-page article giving a possible answer to a problem that had tormented mathematical minds for centuries, the world's greatest mathematicians have been fascinated, infuriated, and obsessed with proving the Riemann hypothesis. They speak of it in awed terms and consider it to be an even more difficult pr...(展开全部)

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 ...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

The paperback of the critically-acclaimed popular science book by a writer who is fast becoming a celebrity mathematician. Prime numbers are the very atoms of arithmetic. They also embody one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. How can one predict when the next prime number will occur? Is there a formula which could generate primes? These apparen...(展开全部)

What you are today is not important... for in thisrunaway bestseller you will learn how to changeyour life by applying the secrets you are about todiscover in the ancient scrolls.

In 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy that would forever change the history of mathematics. The subject was the mystery of prime numbers. At the heart of the presentation was an idea that Riemann had not yet proved but one that baffles mathematicians to this day.</p> Solving the Riemann Hypothesis could change the way we do b...(展开全部)

This text covers Riemann surface theory from elementary aspects to the frontiers of current research. Open and closed surfaces are treated with emphasis on the compact case, while basic tools are developed to describe the analytic, geometric, and algebraic properties of Riemann surfaces and the associated Abelian varities. Topics covered include existence of meromorphic functio...(展开全部)

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Oliv...(展开全部)

An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance. The cybernetician's mission is to combat the general entropy that threatens living beings, machines, societies—that is, to create the experimental conditions for a continuous revitalization, to constantly restore the integrity of the whole.—from The Cybernetic Hy...(展开全部)

当代法国侦探小说作家，硕果仅存的坚持本格侦探小说创作的欧美作家，被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。 霍尔特一九五六年出生于法国东北部亚尔萨斯省的阿格诺。一九八七年以《第四扇门》一书获得干邑侦探小说奖而正式出道。之后陆续创作以“阿兰•图威斯特博士”为主人公的系列作品及其他系列作品，代表作有《第七重解答》、《达特穆尔的恶魔》、《恶狼之夜》等。霍尔特的绝大多数作品都是描写不可能犯罪的正统解谜之作，以密室、不在场证明、足迹消失等核心诡计为卖点，凭借异想天开的构思、缜密的逻辑推导以及意料之外、情理之中的解答征服了广大读者，成为当代欧美侦探小说作家中最为“古典”、“另类”的一位，是当之无愧的当代本格侦探小说的领军人物。