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When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.

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March 2008
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The Riemann Hypothesis is probably the hardest unsolved problem in all of mathematics, and one of the most important. It has to do with prime numbers - the building blocks of arithmetic. Nick Mee, together with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, tells us about the patterns hiding inside numbers.

Tags: prime number : cryptography : number theory : Riemann Hypothesis : prime number distribution : Arthur C Clarke : Fundamental theorem of arithmetic : zeta function : Riemann zeta function : prime number spiral