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Bernhard Riemann
A short life that reshaped mathematics: the Riemann integral, Riemann surfaces, curved geometry (later used by Einstein), and the 1859 paper on primes and the zeta function that left the most famous open problem in math.
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Prereqs: Gauss; calculus. Next: Cantor; Hilbert; general relativity. Sources: John Derbyshire, *Prime Obsession* (2003); Riemann, 'On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude' (1859); Clay Mathematics Institute.Next: 1. Life