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

English

ISBN: 1440634289

EAN: 9781440634284

Category: Mathematics / General/Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology/Mathematics / Topology/

Publisher: Plume

Release Date: 07/29/2008

Age Range: 18-UP

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

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 320