More Distribution of Primes and RH References

Here are a few interesting articles on the Internet about the Riemann Hypothesis. They are written for the non mathematician, and give an excellent idea of what the problem is all about.

Marcus du Sautoy has written two articles for the online magazine +Plus: The prime number lottery and The music of the primes. Only very basic math is required to follow along.

Barry Mazur has posted lecture notes he gave on RH at the Clay Math Institute: Are there still unsolved problems with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, . . . ? The lectures notes are in PDF and the link I give takes you to a page where you can link to the PDF notes. There were slides that accompanied the lecture, but I have been unable to find them online. Even without the slides, his lecture gives you a very good idea of how RH fits with finding a good estimate to the prime number function. Once again, only basic math is required to read the article.