Poincaré's prize: the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles
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.
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2007
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 309 S. |
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Grigori Perelman s unprecedented refusal of a Fields Medal for
solving one of the greatest problems of our age. The king waits in
vain.
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The importance of dimensions for Christopher Columbus and for
bugs.
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The life of Henri
in a coal mine.
^jfiaftter
Poincaré s prizewinning
the scandal.
fe*
Topology; how this mathematical discipline has developed since
viii Contents
ßter
Mountain, North Carolina
Poincaré s
parts he got right.
er 7:
Imaging things that are unimaginable.
Ü/ia/>ter
Around the world with three-dimensional spheres.
9;
A rock-collecting yippie amazes the world.
er
How other hopefuls ended up with egg on their faces.
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Richard Hamilton gets going with the
stuck.
er 72:
The proof lands on the Internet. Swooping up
and Hamilton. History is made.
Q/ìo/tter
Vetting the proof, a math professor pushes his proteges into the
limelight.
The minor matter of a million dollars. Does money motivate math?
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
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ѓ
Grigori Perelman's unprecedented refusal of a Fields Medal for
solving one of the greatest problems of our age. The king waits in
vain.
*
The importance of dimensions for Christopher Columbus and for
bugs.
^Aa/)tw
The life of Henri
in a coal mine.
^jfiaftter
Poincaré's prizewinning
the scandal.
fe*
Topology; how this mathematical discipline has developed since
viii Contents
ßter
Mountain, North Carolina
Poincaré's
parts he got right.
'er 7:
Imaging things that are unimaginable.
Ü/ia/>ter
Around the world with three-dimensional spheres.
9;
A rock-collecting yippie amazes the world.
'er
How other hopefuls ended up with egg on their faces.
%а/>ш77:
Richard Hamilton gets going with the
stuck.
er 72:
The proof lands on the Internet. Swooping up
and Hamilton. History is made.
Q/ìo/tter
Vetting the proof, a math professor pushes his proteges into the
limelight.
The minor matter of a million dollars. Does money motivate math?
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author |
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