

An edition of The new book of prime number records (1996)
By Paulo Ribenboim
Publish Date
1996
Publisher
Springer
Language
eng
Pages
541
Description:
The Guinness Book made records immensely popular. This book is devoted, at first glance, to present records concerning prime numbers. But it is much more. It explores the interface between computations and the theory of prime numbers. The book contains an up-to-date historical presentation of the main problems about prime numbers, as well as many fascinating topics, including primality testing. It is written in a language without secrets and is thoroughly accessible to everyone with some mathematical education. This new book has an improved and smoother presentation.
subjects: Prime Numbers, Numbers, prime, Number theory, Mathematics