Book read: Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy

This is a book I've been meaning to read for a while. It is a mathematical history of prime numbers, and the Riemann Zeta hypothesis.

That may not sound too promising for a book, but it is a very interesting and readable account. The history side is fascinating, the great names that have worked on the this area over the centuries. The book also describes the use of primes in cryptography and also describes the use of computer power to verify (but not prove) Riemann.

So I wish I had read this sooner, but glad that now I have - a book that you could not put down once you had started.