Shaping Modern Mathematics
The Queen of Mathematics by Professor Raymond Flood. Carl Friedrich Gauss one of the greatest mathematicians, is said to have claimed: "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics." The properties of primes play a crucial part in number theory. An intriguing question is how they are distributed among the other integers. The 19th century saw progress in answering this question with the proof of the Prime Number Theorem although it also saw Bernhard Riemann posing what many think to be the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics - the Riemann Hypothesis. (from gresham.ac.uk)
| The Queen of Mathematics |
Go to the Series Home or watch other lectures:
| 1. Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits |
| 2. Polynomials and their Roots |
| 3. From One to Many Geometries |
| 4. The Queen of Mathematics |
| 5. Are Averages Typical? |
| 6. Modeling the World |