Table of Contents
A re-introduction 1
16 Number systems within number systems within number systems within number systems… 5
17 The zeta function Bernhard Riemann's big discovery 29
18 Back to prime numbers remember them? 43
19 The Riemann zeta zeros a most mysterious splatter 67
20 Zeta zeros and spiral waves and exactly how they're related 81
21 The primes and the zeros two sides of a coin (but what's the coin?) 99
22 Philosophical interlude phew! put the kettle on … 119
23 The Riemann Hypothesis what everyone seems to want to know about 139
24 Reformulations of the Riemann Hypothesis other ways of saying the same thing 151
25 The significance of the Riemann Hypothesis does this really matter and, if so, why? 169
26 What's this really about? do you really expect me to answer that question? 189
27 A spectrum of vibrations the Riemann zeros are vibrations … but of what? 197
Notes 212
Appendices 10-14 226
