Poincare Conjecture In Search of the Shape of the Universe

Name: Poincare Conjecture In Search of the Shape of the Universe
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ISBN: 9780802716545

ISBN-10: 0802716547

ISBN-13: 9780802716545

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Authors: Donal O'Shea

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"O'Shea tells the fascinating story of this mathematical mystery and its solution by the eccentric Mr. Perelman."--"Wall Street Journal "In 1904, Henri Poincare, a giant among mathematicians who transformed the fledging area of topology into a powerful field essential to all mathematics and physics, posed the Poincare conjecture, a tantalizing puzzle that speaks to the possible shape of the universe. For more than a century, the conjecture resisted attempts to prove or disprove it. As Donal O'Shea reveals in his elegant narrative, Poincare's conjecture opens a door to the history of geometry, from the Pythagoreans of ancient Greece to the celebrated geniuses of the nineteenth-century…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Walker & Company
Publication date: 1/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



Cambridge, April 2003



The Shape of the Earth



Possible Worlds



The Shape of the Universe



Euclid's Geometry



The Non-Euclideans



Bernhard Riemann's Probationary Lecture



Riemann's Legacy



Klein and Poincare



Poincare's Topological Papers



The Great Savants



The Conjecture Takes Hold



Higher Dimensions



A Solution in the New Millennium



Madrid, August 2006


Notes


Glossary of Terms


Glossary of Names


Timeline


Bibliography


Further Reading


Art Credits


Acknowledgments


Index