Air Date
April 13, 2010
Episodes
3 episodes
The Music of the Primes
Season 1
Episodes
1. Episode 1
April 13, 2010
60 min
What are primes and how do they affect us? Trace the prime number theorem back through history, highlighting the work of some of the greatest mathematical minds along the way. From Euclid to Carl Friedrich Gauss, who at 15 years of age helped uncover some of the mysteries of the prime.
2. Episode 2
April 16, 2010
60 min
Join Bernhard Riemann in his extrodinary new mathmatical world, and discover the dramatic implications his journey would have in the quest for the music of the primes.
3. Episode 3
April 21, 2010
60 min
Discover how mathmations have used the power of the computer to try and crack the mystery of the primes.
