Riemann’s
first discovery: Is the “sound” of
the primes “music” or “noise”?
In other words, are the frequencies isolated or
is there a continuous range of frequencies needed
to recover the graph of primes?
The frequencies correspond to the North-South
coordinate. If the sound of the primes is noise
then there must be whole rivers of points at sea-level.
Riemann could prove this was not the case. A point
at sea-level must be isolated. The primes have
music hidden in them.

Here is what the primes actually sound like if
you play all these harmonics together. CLICK “A
post-modern music but thanks to Riemann’s
work we can say about it what Bernard Shaw said
about the music of Wagner: this music is better
than it sounds” Sir Michael Berry.
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