"The Music of the Primes" by Marcus du Sautoy chronicles the historical quest to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, framing the distribution of prime numbers through the metaphor of a musical "harmony". The book highlights the work of mathematicians like Gauss and Ramanujan, exploring how this mathematical "Holy Grail" impacts modern cryptography and quantum physics. For a detailed overview, see the Wikipedia entry for The Music of the Primes .