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26
Jan
The Music of the Primes
Inthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics—the formula to predict prime numbers.
The Music of the Primes
My rating 8/10
Written by Marcus du Sautoy Released in 2003
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27
Nov
Gödel, Escher, Bach
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Written by Douglas R. Hofstadter Released in 1979
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23
Jul
The Man Who Knew Infinity
A book that inspired a movie of the same title. Don't get scared of mathematical formulas, the author explains in the easiest ways some of the theories Ramanujan was working on.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
My rating 8.5/10
Written by Robert Kanigel Released in 1991
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