Download or read book The Music of the Primes written by Marcus Du Sautoy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the history of prime numbers, (numbers divisible only by one and themselves), which has implications beyond pure mathematics. Euclid, Ramanujan, Odlyzko, and the formation of RSA encryption are discussed, as well as the state of contemporary research on the topic.