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The great mathematical problems / Ian Stewart.

By: Stewart, Ian, 1945-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Profile Books, 2014Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 340 p. ; ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781846683374 (pbk.)Other title: Visions of infinitySubject(s): Mathematics | Number theoryDDC classification: 510 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
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.
Summary: "Overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still"--Dust jacket flap.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-324) and index.

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.

"Overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still"--Dust jacket flap.

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