A Night of Numbers

Music of the Primes (1x2)

Data di messa in onda: Dic 06, 2005

Prime numbers - those figures which refuse to be divided neatly by anything other than one and themselves - are fundamental to mathematics. Yet they seem to surface entirely randomly along the number line. But are the primes truly random - or is there some hidden pattern? Marcus DuSautoy investigates the fascinating story of the great mathematicians who've grappled with the problem of the primes.