Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
by Szpiro, George G
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- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0525950249
- ISBN 13
- 9780525950240
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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.
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- Title
- Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
- Author
- Szpiro, George G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0525950249
- ISBN 13
- 9780525950240
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
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- Mathematics;
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