An edition of Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles (2007)

Poincaré's prize

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An edition of Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles (2007)

Poincaré's prize

the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles

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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 Poincare developed the Poincare Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. Th e 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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Dutton
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309

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Mathematics, Nonfiction, Problems, exercises, Popular works, Poincare Conjecture, History, Poincaré conjecture, Mathematics, competitions, Mathematics, popular works, Poincare, henri, 1854-1912
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Cover of: Poincare's Prize
Poincare's Prize
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
E-book in English
Cover of: Poincare's Prize
Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
2008, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
Cover of: Poincare's Prize
Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
June 21, 2007, Dutton Adult
Hardcover in English
Cover of: La Conjecture de Poincaré
La Conjecture de Poincaré
Sep 05, 2007, LATTES
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Cover of: Poincaré's prize
Poincaré's prize: the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles
2007, Dutton
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Problems, exercises, etc., Popular works.

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510.76
Library of Congress
QA43 .S985 2007, QA43.S985 2007, QA43 .S985 2008

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p. cm.
Number of pages
309

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OL17873183M
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9780525950240
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2007012792
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105464690
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2824706
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1317835

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