$1,000,000 problem :: Gauss  
         
     

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…

 
   
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