How long does it take to read Prime Obsession?
Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
John Derbyshire
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire takes about 7 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 435 pages, about 119,625 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Series, Prime Numbers, Mathematics, Numbers, prime, Riemann surfaces, Mathematicians, biography
