The Riemann Zeta-Function: Theory and Applications Aleksandar Ivic, A. IVIC
Publisher: Dover Publications

I was skimming through this recent PRL paper [preprint here], which purports to show that the non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function correspond to the energy levels of a quantum mechanical system. MR2975161 Harman, Glyn Primes whose sum of digits is prime and metric number theory. We are covering basic group theory and it is quite a relief compared to some of the more intense math I did last semester (*cough* topology). (to get the correct energy levels, you have to consider the 'semiclassical limit'), so if we think that quantum mechanics is the 'true' theory, then in the real world, that system will not have energy levels giving us the nontrivial solutions of the Riemann zeta function. Riemann Zeta function question. The course is supposed to move on to rings and modules later; complex functions, and contour integrals. I had even studied the Riemann zeta function in high school. Why do prime numbers Similarly, the Riemann-Zeta function is a giant kaleidoscope, and I doubt that we can run out of different ways of looking at it anytime soon. Mathematician Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis has computed the locations of as many as 1023 zeros of the Riemann zeta function and found a near-perfect agreement with random matrix theory. So I was reading The Music of the Primes and I obviously came across the Zeta function. MR2975381 Radziwiłł, Maksym The 4.36th moment of the Riemann zeta-function. The list includes, at one end, the scattering of neutrons off heavy nuclei and, at the other, the statistics of the zeros of the Riemann-zeta function on the critical line Re z =1/2. As a result, we are now sailing into the little-explored seas lying somewhere between two giant continents of number theory and physics. It's a book about an obscure question in the field of number theory, one that remains unsolved after 150 years and probably has little to no practical application, but John Derbyshire manages to give the subject some real personality while doing his best to make it accessible to readers who haven't taken a lot of advanced The subject of Prime Obsession is the Riemann Hypothesis, which states that the non-trivial zeros of Riemann's zeta function are half part real. What do you imagine to be the practical applications of the autonomous research you are doing through ZetaTrek? And on top of that, I was not It is essentially a mathematical and statistics course with applications. Apparently it tends to infinity when the argument is 1.