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The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
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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 ofFermat's EnigmaandPrime 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. 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.
Release date NZ
July 29th, 2008
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
320
Dimensions
137x203x23
ISBN-13
9780452289642
Product ID
3471815

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