Prime Numbers: the Simple Musical Solution

Résumé du livre

Mathematicians tell us that the prime numbers grow like weeds, with no obvious reason for how they appear. But were we looking in the right way? James F. Anderson, a musician and historian, says that with some simple arithmetic and a dose of music theory, the primes reveal a pattern, and in their earlier stages are easily predictable. They remain predictable but after a while the calculation becomes simpler with a computer. The pattern in which they appear remains unaltered. And it repeats endlessly. Learn about this pattern to understand primes much better. It is the author's wish that the book is inexpensive.James F. Anderson, a reasonably numerate musician, read History at Cambridge with a Gulbenkian scholarship. He has run major music festivals in Europe, and is interested in the history of mathematics.