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For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has tormented those...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
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    Episode 1

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/2010

    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.

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    Episode 2

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2010

    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.

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    Episode 3

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2010

    Discover how mathmations have used the power of the computer to try and crack the mystery of the primes.

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