I am currently reading The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics, by Marcus du Sautoy. I am not quite done yet but so far it is a very good book. I was wondering if anyone else had read it and if so what the thought of the book. If you have not read it I would suggest you do. It covers the entire story of prime numbers from the Greeks to the present day. Plus, it is not weighed down with to much complicated mathematics.

I met Marcus du Sautoy once. He seemed a nice guy and the talk he gave was good. I don't know the book, but as du Sautoy is a clear speaker, I would imagine his book is good.

Which end is most loaded? I'd like a book about primes but if it takes 7/8th of it up with ancient history and just skims through the last 2 centuries in the last chapter I'd be rather disappointed. Read a book like that on electromagnetism earlier this year, Galvani practically got a chapter to himself and Maxwell got 3/4 of a page.