In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem, Paul J. Nahin from riemann hypothesis history Watch Video
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Description: An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemnnFor centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s and came up short. The straightforward puzzle considers if there exists a simple symbolic formula for the following: 1+(1/2)+(1/3)+(1/4)+… . But why is this issue—the sum of the reciprocals of the positive integers cubed—so important?
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