Air Date
September 28, 2005
Episodes
3 episodes
The Music of the Primes
Season 1
Episodes
1. Numbers
September 28, 2005
26 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. Gauss, Riemann
October 5, 2005
26 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. Alan Turing, Riemann Hypothesis
October 12, 2005
26 min
Discover how mathmations have used the power of the computer to try and crack the mystery of the primes.
