Poincaré's prize: the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles/
Szpiro, George, 1950-
Poincaré's prize: the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles/ George G. Szpiro. - New York: Dutton, c2007. - ix, 309 p.; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.
Traces the hundred-year effort to solve the Poincaré Conjecture and its successful solution by Grigory Perelman, an impoverished Russian recluse who refused all prizes and academic appointments while solving an array of mathematical conundrums.
9780525950240 0525950249
2007012792
GBA735091 bnb
Mathematics--Functions of real variables.
Mathematics--Quantum chromodynamics.
510.76 / S998p
Poincaré's prize: the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles/ George G. Szpiro. - New York: Dutton, c2007. - ix, 309 p.; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.
Traces the hundred-year effort to solve the Poincaré Conjecture and its successful solution by Grigory Perelman, an impoverished Russian recluse who refused all prizes and academic appointments while solving an array of mathematical conundrums.
9780525950240 0525950249
2007012792
GBA735091 bnb
Mathematics--Functions of real variables.
Mathematics--Quantum chromodynamics.
510.76 / S998p