Season 1

3 EPISODES • 2005

Season 1 of The Music of the Primes was released on September 28 and consists of 3 episodes.

Episodes

1: Numbers

Sep 28, 2005

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.

2: Gauss, Riemann

Oct 5, 2005

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.

3: Alan Turing, Riemann Hypothesis

Oct 12, 2005

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

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