Gauss,
a new perspective
"When things get too complicated, it sometimes
makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the
right question?"
Enrico Bombieri from 'Prime Territory' in The
Sciences
At the beginning of the
nineteenth century, a German mathematician called
Carl Friedrich Gauss found a new way to look at
the mysterious list of prime numbers. Gradually
a pattern began to emerge through the mist… |