Books of Numbers, Prime

  • The New Book of Prime Number Records
    By Paulo Ribenboim

    The Guinness Book made records immensely popular. This book is devoted, at first glance, to present records concerning prime numbers. But it is much more. It explores the interface between computations and the theory of prime numbers.

  • The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution
    The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution
    By Gerald Tenenbaum, Michel Mendès France

    The goal of this book is to provide insights into the prime numbers and to describe how a sequence so tautly determined can incorporate such a striking amount of randomness. The book opens with some classic topics of number theory.