| Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles Contributor(s): Szpiro, George G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452289645 ISBN-13: 9780452289642 Publisher: Plume Books OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: In the world of math, the theorem that informs how to understand the shape of the universe has defied every effort to prove it. Now, after more than a century, an eccentric Russian recluse has found the solution to one of the seven greatest math problems of the modern era. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | History & Philosophy - Mathematics | Topology - General - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology |
| Dewey: 510.76 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 Poincar developed the Poincar 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. |
