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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsPrime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

In August 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a little-known 32-year old mathematician, presented a paper to the Berlin Academy titled: "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." In the middle of that paper, Riemann made an incidental remark - a guess, a hypothesis. What he tossed out to the assembled mathematicians that day has proven to be almost cruelly compelling to countless scholars in the ensuing years. Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the question remains. Is the hypothesis true or false?
 
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