Poincare's Prize : The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
por Szpiro, George G
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- ISBN 10
- 0452289645
- ISBN 13
- 9780452289642
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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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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- Livreiro
- Better World Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 4191566-6
- Título
- Poincare's Prize : The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
- Autor
- Szpiro, George G
- Estado do livro
- Used - Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 2
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0452289645
- ISBN 13
- 9780452289642
- Editorial
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Local de publicação
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2008-07-29
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