The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe - Tapa blanda

O'Shea, Donal

 
9780802716545: The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe
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ISBN 10: 0802716547 ISBN 13: 9780802716545
Editorial: Walker & Co, 2007

Sinopsis

"O'Shea tells the fascinating story of this mathematical mystery and its solution by the eccentric Mr. Perelman."-Wall Street Journal
In 1904, Henri Poincaré, a giant among mathematicians who transformed the fledging area of topology into a powerful field essential to all mathematics and physics, posed the Poincaré conjecture, a tantalizing puzzle that speaks to the possible shape of the universe. For more than a century, the conjecture resisted attempts to prove or disprove it. As Donal O'Shea reveals in his elegant narrative, Poincaré's conjecture opens a door to the history of geometry, from the Pythagoreans of ancient Greece to the celebrated geniuses of the nineteenth-century German academy and, ultimately, to a fascinating array of personalities-Poincaré and Bernhard Riemann, William Thurston and Richard Hamilton, and the eccentric genius who appears to have solved it, Grigory Perelman. The solution seems certain to open up new corners of the mathematical universe.

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Acerca del autor

Donal O'Shea is a professor of mathematics and the dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. This is his first book for a general audience. He lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

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Editorial
Walker & Co
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802716547
ISBN 13 
9780802716545
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Número de páginas
293
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ISBN 10:  080271532X ISBN 13:  9780802715326
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