Dr Riemann’s Zeros by Karl Sabbagh, Atlantic Books, £14.99, ISBN 1843541009 Reviewed by Roy Herbert
THERE is a story of a woman on a train who was intrigued by a fellow passenger reading a book and laughing out loud from time to time. He left his seat and the book behind. She snatched the chance to look at it. It was page after page of calculations. She concluded that it was best to find another seat.
Karl Sabbagh’s book aims to show that mathematicians are human. His central topic is Riemann’s hypothesis, a famous and intractable problem that has been keeping mathematicians’ brows knitted for about…
