The Prime Number Conspiracy, The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta by Lin, Thomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph Table of Contents Foreword Introduction I: What’s So Special About Prime Numbers?

Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap Kaisa Matomäki Dreams of Primes Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

II: Is Math the Universal Language of Nature?

Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order A Unified Theory of Randomness Strange Numbers Found in Particle Collisions Quantum Questions Inspire New Math

III: How are Surprising Proofs Discovered?

IV: How Do the Best Mathematical Minds Work?

A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces A “Rebel” Without a Ph.D. A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos The Musical, Magical Number Theorist The Oracle of Arithmetic After Prime Proof, an Unlikely Star Rises In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind

V: What Can or Can’t Computers Do?

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse A Grand Vision for the Impossible

VI: What Is Infinity?

VII: Is Mathematics Good for You?

A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World

Acknowledgments Contributors Index