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An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematicsIntegers and permutations-two of the most basic mathematical objects-are born of different fields and analyzed with different techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences Investigation team of crack forensic mathematicians, led by Professor Gauss, begins its autopsies of the victims of two seemingly unrelated homicides, Arnie Integer and Daisy Permutation, they discover the most extraordinary similarities between the structures of each body.Prime Suspects is a graphic novel that takes you on a voyage of forensic discovery, exploring some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics.Travel with Detective von Neumann as he leaves no clue unturned, from shepherds' huts in the Pyrenees to secret societies in the cafés of Paris, from the hidden codes in the music of the stones to the grisly discoveries in Finite Fields. Tremble at the ferocity of the believers in deep and rigid abstraction. Feel the pain as you work with our young heroine, Emmy Germain, as she blazes a trail for women in mathematical research and learns from Professor Gauss, the greatest forensic detective of them all.Beautifully drawn and wittily and exquisitely detailed, Prime Suspects is unique, astonishing, and outrageous-a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience mathematics like never before.

Mathematics --- Math --- Science --- Accuracy and precision. --- Alan Turing. --- Alexander Grothendieck. --- Analytic number theory. --- Anatoly Vershik. --- Arithmetic. --- Atle Selberg. --- Ben Green (mathematician). --- Bernhard Riemann. --- Bessel function. --- Big O notation. --- Binary logarithm. --- Bryna Kra. --- Calculation. --- Child prodigy. --- Coefficient. --- Comic book. --- Conjecture. --- Coprime integers. --- Cryptography. --- David Hilbert. --- Diagram (category theory). --- Diophantine geometry. --- Diophantus. --- Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. --- Emil Artin. --- Emmy Noether. --- Enrico Bombieri. --- Erica Klarreich. --- Felix Klein. --- Fermat's Last Theorem. --- Fields Medal. --- Friedrich Bessel. --- Fundamental theorem of arithmetic. --- Gamma function. --- Gauss sum. --- Gelfand. --- Grigori Perelman. --- Henri Cartan. --- Hermann Weyl. --- Hilbert's tenth problem. --- Integer. --- Jean-Pierre Serre. --- Joint probability distribution. --- Julia Robinson. --- Keith Devlin. --- Klaus Roth. --- Kloosterman sum. --- Language of mathematics. --- Logarithm. --- Log-log plot. --- Manjul Bhargava. --- Maryam Mirzakhani. --- Mathematical problem. --- Mathematical sciences. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Men of Mathematics. --- Millennium Prize Problems. --- Modular form. --- Monic polynomial. --- Multiplication table. --- Natural logarithm. --- Natural number. --- Nicolas Bourbaki. --- Normal distribution. --- Number theory. --- Occam's razor. --- Oswald Veblen. --- Parity (mathematics). --- Permutation. --- Persi Diaconis. --- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. --- Peter Scholze. --- Pierre Deligne. --- Pierre Samuel. --- Plus-minus sign. --- Poisson distribution. --- Polynomial. --- Prime factor. --- Prime number. --- Prime power. --- Probability theory. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Pure mathematics. --- Random permutation. --- Richard Dedekind. --- Riemann hypothesis. --- Riemann surface. --- Riemann zeta function. --- Robin Hartshorne. --- Saunders Mac Lane. --- Serge Lang. --- Shinichi Mochizuki. --- Siegel zero. --- Sieve theory. --- Sophie Germain. --- Stirling numbers of the first kind. --- Summation. --- Variable (mathematics).