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<p><p><b>&#8220;o'shea Tells The Fascinating Story Of This Mathematical Mystery And Its Solution By The Eccentric Mr. Perelman.&#8221;&#8212;<i>wall Street Journal <p></b></i>in 1904, Henri Poincar&#233;, A Giant Among Mathematicians Who Transformed The Fledging Area Of Topology Into A Powerful Field Essential To All Mathematics And Physics, Posed The Poincar&#233; 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&#8217;shea Reveals In His Elegant Narrative, Poincar&#233;&#8217;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&#8212;poincar&#233; 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.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p><p>the Reclusive Russian Mathematician Grigory Perelman Became A Minor Media Celebrity Last Summer Wh

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Author

O'Shea, Donal; International Congress of Mathematicians (2006: Madrid, Spain)

Publisher

New York: Walker & Co.: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802715326

Category

science

Subjects

Mathematics, Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

3.79 / 5 (493 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14