Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (German: [ˈʀiːman] (About this sound listen); 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the first rigorous formulation of the integral, the Riemann integral, and his work on Fourier series.
His contributions to complex analysis include most notably the introduction of Riemann surfaces, breaking new ground in a natural, geometric treatment of complex analysis.
His famous 1859 paper on the prime-counting function, containing the original statement of the Riemann hypothesis, is regarded, although it is his only paper in the field, as one of the most influential papers in analytic number theory.
Through his pioneering contributions to differential geometry, Bernhard Riemann laid the foundations of the mathematics of general relativity.
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Riemann hypothesis: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2. The first non-trivial crimes against mathematical constants can be pre-visualized at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.
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External links:
- Bernhard Riemann @ Wikipedia
- On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude - a seminal 10-page paper by Riemann published in November 1859. It studies the prime-counting function using analytic methods. Although it is the only paper Riemann ever published on number theory, it contains ideas which influenced thousands of researchers during the late 19th century and up to the present day. The paper consists primarily of definitions, heuristic arguments, sketches of proofs, and the application of powerful analytic methods; all of these have become essential concepts and tools of modern analytic number theory.
- [http://www.claymath.org/sites/default/files/ezeta.pdf On the Number of Prime Numbers less than a
Given Quantity]