Marcus du Sautoy — Creator
Episodes 3
Numbers
September 28, 2005
• 26m
1x1
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.
Read MoreGauss, Riemann
October 5, 2005
• 26m
1x2
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.
Read MoreAlan Turing, Riemann Hypothesis
Season Finale
October 12, 2005
• 26m
1x3
Discover how mathmations have used the power of the computer to try and crack the mystery of the primes.
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