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I don't think it comes close to 3blue1brown's video on the same topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw
by st1x7 6y ago
I don't think it comes close to 3blue1brown's video on the same topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw
Still nice of the video in the original post to give a bit more of a historical context, instead of focusing entirely on the mathematics. It could have done without the building analogy around the beginning though, that didn't come up later and was just distracting.
- pseudolus 6y ago+1 for the 3blue1brown recommendation. Between the two, a non-mathematician can acquire a layperson's comprehension of the Riemann Hypothesis. Additionally, John Derbyshire (of the unfortunate views regarding race) wrote a very good book "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics" that covered both historical and mathematical aspects of the Riemann Hypothesis [0]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=prime+obsession&qid=1609856340&sr=8-2 https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mat...
- EricMausler 6y agoThat video made complex analysis click for me