The Music of the Primes - Season 1

The Music of the Primes

Season 1

2005 • 3 Episodes

Episodes

Numbers - The Music of the Primes

1. Numbers

September 28, 2005

What are primes and how do they affect us? Trace the prime number theorem back through history, highlighting the work of some of the greatest mathematical minds along the way. From Euclid to Carl Friedrich Gauss, who at 15 years of age helped uncover some of the mysteries of the prime.

Gauss, Riemann - The Music of the Primes

2. Gauss, Riemann

October 5, 2005

Join Bernhard Riemann in his extrodinary new mathmatical world, and discover the dramatic implications his journey would have in the quest for the music of the primes.

Alan Turing, Riemann Hypothesis - The Music of the Primes

3. Alan Turing, Riemann Hypothesis

October 12, 2005

Discover how mathmations have used the power of the computer to try and crack the mystery of the primes.