Book Review of Stein book

[kcrisman]

Less relevant, but still ... Also probably behind a paywall ... anyway, this is a review of Barry Mazur and William Stein's book on the Riemann Hypothesis by someone who knows something about writing good books about analytic number theory and representation theory.  No Sage in the review but see the Github repo for the book https://github.com/williamstein/rh for the worksheets/code that generated the illustrations.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2018.1438005

[William Stein]

I'm giving a talk in two weeks (in Boston) on "the experience of writing and
publishing that book". If anybody has any comments or questions, let
me know, since it'll help me prepare my talk :-).

William

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[John Cremona]

On 25 May 2018 at 18:47, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com> wrote:

Less relevant, but still ... Also probably behind a paywall ... anyway, this is a review of Barry Mazur and William Stein's book on the Riemann Hypothesis by someone who knows something about writing good books about analytic number theory and representation theory.  No Sage in the review but see the Github repo for the book https://github.com/williamstein/rh for the worksheets/code that generated the illustrations.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2018.1438005

Yes, there is a paywall for all but the first page of the review.  (They offered to let me have 24 hours access to the review for £35 which is rather more than the entire book costs).

Surprising that Avner Ash seems to have confused the BSD conjecture (unproved and a Millennium problem) with Fermat (proved and not).

John

 

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[kcrisman]

On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 3:13:57 PM UTC-4, John Cremona wrote:

On 25 May 2018 at 18:47, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com> wrote:

Less relevant, but still ... Also probably behind a paywall ... anyway, this is a review of Barry Mazur and William Stein's book on the Riemann Hypothesis by someone who knows something about writing good books about analytic number theory and representation theory.  No Sage in the review but see the Github repo for the book https://github.com/williamstein/rh for the worksheets/code that generated the illustrations.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2018.1438005

Yes, there is a paywall for all but the first page of the review.  (They offered to let me have 24 hours access to the review for £35 which is rather more than the entire book costs).

Surprising that Avner Ash seems to have confused the BSD conjecture (unproved and a Millennium problem) with Fermat (proved and not).

That would surprise me as well, given his several non-specialist books on closely related topics ...  

[John Cremona]

http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems

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[Erik Bray]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:13 PM, John Cremona <john.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 25 May 2018 at 18:47, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Less relevant, but still ... Also probably behind a paywall ... anyway,
>> this is a review of Barry Mazur and William Stein's book on the Riemann
>> Hypothesis by someone who knows something about writing good books about
>> analytic number theory and representation theory. No Sage in the review but
>> see the Github repo for the book https://github.com/williamstein/rh for the
>> worksheets/code that generated the illustrations.
>>
>> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2018.1438005
>
>
> Yes, there is a paywall for all but the first page of the review. (They
> offered to let me have 24 hours access to the review for £35 which is rather
> more than the entire book costs).

Huh, maybe it's because I'm on an academic network or something but i
was able to get the full review directly at that link without doing
anything.

Sounds like a good book! ;)

[John Cremona]

Unfortunately that's not the case from the University of Warwick.

 

Sounds like a good book! ;)