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Tags: Pi : rational number : irrational number : algebraic number : transcendental number : e : circle-squaring


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Marcus du Sautoy begins a two part exploration of the greatest unsolved problem of mathematics: The Riemann Hypothesis. In the first part, we find out how the German mathematician Gauss, aged only 15, discovered the dice that Nature used to chose the primes.

Tags: prime number : Fibonacci number : logarithm : e : hilbert problems : Riemann hypothesis


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Surein Aziz explores one of the most beautiful equations in mathematics

Tags: e : Euler : imaginary number : Euler's identity : Euler's formula : Taylor series