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.