Secrets of Creation
The Mystery of the Prime Numbers
Published on 27. March 2015
362 pages
978-1-78535-102-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Mystery of the Prime Numbers uses an innovative visual approach to communicate some surprisingly advanced mathematical ideas without any need for formulas or equations. The issue of prime numbers acts as a gateway into some truly strange philosophical territory whose relevance extends well beyond mathematics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
10,26 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-102-0 (9781785351020)
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03/2015
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Person
Matthew Watkins was born in London in 1970. He trained to be a research mathematician, completing his PhD in 1994, but then left academia to travel and pursue other interests. He has stayed on the periphery of academic mathematics, having been an honorary research fellow at Exeter University since 2000.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- An Introduction
- 1. Numbers and Counting
- 2. How to Build the Number System
- 3. Prime Numbers
- 4. Prime Factors
- 5. A Philosophical Interlude
- 6. Addition Versus Multiplication
- 7. An Infinity of Primes
- 8. Patterns and Formulas
- 9. Spirals
- 10. The Distribution
- 11. Staircases
- 12. The Deviation
- 13. Harmonic Decomposition
- 14. Spiral Waves
- 15. Mysterious Frequencies
- Notes
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Appendix 7
- Appendix 8
- Appendix 9
- Index
