Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
ISBN-13:
9780452289642
ISBN-10:
0452289645
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
George G Szpiro
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Format:
Paperback
309 pages
Category:
Scientists
,
Professionals & Academics
,
History
,
Mathematics
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ISBN-13:
9780452289642
ISBN-10:
0452289645
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
George G Szpiro
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Format:
Paperback
309 pages
Category:
Scientists
,
Professionals & Academics
,
History
,
Mathematics
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Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles (ISBN-13: 9780452289642 and ISBN-10: 0452289645), written by authors
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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 Fermat’s Enigma and 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 Poincaré developed the Poincaré Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. The problem was he couldn’t 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 been found.
Accessibly interweaving history and math, Szpiro captures the passion, frustration, and excitement of the hunt, and provides a fascinating portrait of a contemporary noble-genius.
In the tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and 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 Poincaré developed the Poincaré Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. The problem was he couldn’t 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 been found.
Accessibly interweaving history and math, Szpiro captures the passion, frustration, and excitement of the hunt, and provides a fascinating portrait of a contemporary noble-genius.
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