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The Music of the Primes

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Author:Marcus du Sautoy
Description: Find out why the primes are "Nature's most important numbers." Play games to find out how well you know your primes, and to see the effect of different choices of numbers for the life cycle of the cicada and its deadly predator. See, in particular, a history of mathematics as it unfolded in dozens of nations around the globe, from Algeria to Wales; and a timeline of history-art-music and mathematics. Also read about Pythagoras and harmonics; seeing sound; the sound of the violin and clarinet; sine waves; the difference between music and noise; counting the primes; the staircase of primes; a pattern in the primes; cracking codes; Gauss' clock calculators; scrambling and unscrambling a credit card; cryptography on the Internet; and maths and the creative arts (films, TV, plays, books, music, fine art). See also du Sautoy's original article on the Riemann Hypothesis.
Levels: College
Languages: English
Resource Types: Audio, Games, Simulations, Problems/Puzzles, Recreations
Math Topics: Prime Numbers, History and Biography, Number Theory, Acoustics

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