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

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

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

In the tradition ofÂ Fermatâ€™s EnigmaÂ andÂ 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 PoincarÃ© developed the PoincarÃ© Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. The problem was he couldnâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Plume
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
Color Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate 2008-07-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780452289642

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