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020 $a9780471480624 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
037 $bOverDrive, Inc.$nhttp://www.overdrive.com
100 1 $aSzpiro, George G $q(George G Szpiro).
245 10 $aKepler's Conjecture$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,$c2003.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aThe fascinating story of a problem that perplexed mathematicians for nearly 400 years In 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that the best way to pack spheres as densely as possible was to pile them up in the same way that grocers stack oranges or tomatoes. This proposition, known as Kepler's Conjecture, seemed obvious to everyone except mathematicians, who seldom take anyone's word for anything. In the tradition of Fermat's Enigma, George Szpiro shows how the problem engaged and stymied many men of genius over the centuries--Sir Walter Raleigh, astronomer Tycho Brahe, Sir Isaac Newton, mathematicians C. F. Gauss and David Hilbert, and R. Buckminster Fuller, to name a few--until Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan submitted what seems to be a definitive proof in 1998. George G. Szpiro (Jerusalem, Israel) is a mathematician turned journalist. He is currently the Israel correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,$d2003.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2532 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2532 KB).
653 #0 $aMathematics
653 #0 $aNonfiction
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
776 1 $cOriginal$z9780471086017
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