Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

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Synopsis
The amazing story of one of the greatest math problems of all time and the reclusive genius who solved itIn 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.

Copyright:
2007

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
324 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781440634284
Related ISBNs:
9780452289642
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
George Szpiro
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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