Visions of infinity : the great mathematical problems / Ian Stewart.
"Overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still"--Dust jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 0465022405
- ISBN: 9780465022403
- Physical Description: x, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Great problems -- Prime territory : Goldbach Conjecture -- The puzzle of pi : squaring the circle -- Mapmaking mysteries : Four Color theorem -- Sphereful symmetry : Kepler Conjecture -- New solutions for old : Mordell Conjecture -- Inadequate margins : Fermat's Last Theorem -- Orbital chaos : Three-body problem -- Patterns in prime : Riemann Hypothesis -- What shape is a sphere? : Poincaré Conjecture -- They can't all be easy : P/NP problem -- Fluid thinking : Navier-Stokes Equation -- Quantum conundrum : Mass Gap Hypothesis -- Diophantine dreams : Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture -- Complex cycles : Hodge Conjecture -- Where next? -- Twelve for the future.
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- Subject:
- Mathematics.
Number theory.
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"Overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still"--Dust jacket flap.
