Poincare's Prize The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

Name: Poincare's Prize The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
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ISBN: 9780452289642

ISBN-10: 0452289645

ISBN-13: 9780452289642

Edition: N/A

Authors: George G. Szpiro

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The amazing story of one of the greatest math problems of all time and the reclusive genius who solved it In the tradition of Fermats Enigmaand Prime Obsession, George Szpiro brings to life the giants of mathematics who struggled to prove a theorem for a century and the mysterious man from St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman, who fi nally accomplished the impossible. In 1904 Henri Poincar developed the Poincar Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. The problem was he couldnt prove it. A century later it was named a Millennium Prize problem, one of the seven hardest problems we can imagine. Now this holy grail of mathematics has…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English