Discover the Hidden Beauty of Numbers with Dr. Barry Mazur 🌟

Dr. Barry Mazur: The Beauty in Numbers<br />Mathematical Sciences Research Institute - MSRI, Berkeley, CA<br />Dr. Barry Mazur<br />Gerhard Gade University Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University<br /><br />William Stein<br />Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington<br /><br />Dr. Barry Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, will give a talk on Primes, based on his book-in-progress with William Stein on the Riemann Hypothesis.<br /><br />How you would tell a high-school student or an interested lay person about the Riemann Hypothesis?<br /><br />From the Introduction to the Book by Mazur and Stein (available at http://modular.math.washington.edu/rh/):<br />The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the great unsolved problems of mathematics and the reward of $1,000,000 of Clay Mathematics Institute prize money awaits the person who solves it. But-with or without money, its resolution is crucial for our understanding of the nature of numbers.<br /><br />There are at least four full-length books recently published, written for a general audience, that have the Riemann Hypothesis as their main topic. A reader of these books will get a fairly rich picture of the personalities engaged in the pursuit, and of related mathematical and historical issues.<br /><br />This is not the mission of the book that you now have before you. We aim-instead-to explain, in as direct a manner as possible and with the least mathematical background required, what this problem is all about and why it is so important.