A pop-sci article that contains less hype is Brian Hayes' The Spectrum of Riemannium: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/the-spectrum-of-riemannium/1

A pop-sci article that contains less hype is Brian Hayes' The Spectrum of Riemannium: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/the-spectrum-of-riemannium/1 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/the-spectrum-of... If you want to learn the actual math of random matrices, Terry Tao's notes are a good start: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/category/teaching/254a-random-matrices http://terrytao.wordpress.com/category/teaching/254a-random-...