For the fast-dwindling number of Americans who have not yet purchased Prime
Obsession: A reader who is actually a mathematician happened to overhear
Arthur Jaffe (Professor of Math at Harvard University) opining on the book’s
merit’s, thus: “Quite good… but elementary.” I could not be more
pleased. If I have made the Riemann Hypothesis elementary, I have done my
work well. (I do acknowledge, though, that the word “elementary” may not
have quite the same significance for a Harvard math professor that it has
for the rest of us…)