I just finished reading Marcus du Sautoy’s “The Music of the Primes: Searching To Solve the 
Greatest Mystery in Mathematics”. If a book about a subject as dense as the Riemann Hypothesis can be described as a page-turner, this is the one. Using analogies and metaphors, du Sautoy enables the reader to appreciate the difficulties, as well as the successes, mathematicians have experienced in trying to prove a conjecture that has defied proof for almost 200 years. The book’s audience is the lay reader and thus, does not delve too deeply into zeta functions, imaginary numbers and quantum chaos theory. In other words, after reading, you still won’t be equipped to find a proof of the Hypothesis and claim the $1 million Clay Millennium Prize.
Author: billybudd52
Evaluating Adobe PhoneGap
In evaluating multi-platform development tools for mobile, I came across PhoneGap, Adobe’s entry into the marketplace. What makes PhoneGap unique is that apps can be developed using standard web development technologies, such as HTML, CSS and javascript. What surprised me was the access PhoneGap provides to device-level features, such as the accelerometer, camera and GPS. I thought that level of access required Xcode, or at least a multi-platform tool like Xamarin, with its reliance on C# and Mono .NET. PhoneGap apps will even handle push notifications.