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Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
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- George G Szpiro
- Plume Books
- Paperback
- 9780452289642
- 7.9 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches
- 0.75 pounds
- Mathematics > History & Philosophy
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In the tradition of Fermat's Enigma and Prime Obsession, George Szpiro brings to life the giants of mathematics who struggled to prove a theorem for a century and the mysterious man from St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman, who fi nally accomplished the impossible. In 1904 Henri Poincar� developed the Poincar� Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. The problem was he couldn't prove it. A century later it was named a Millennium Prize problem, one of the seven hardest problems we can imagine. Now this holy grail of mathematics has been found.
Accessibly interweaving history and math, Szpiro captures the passion, frustration, and excitement of the hunt, and provides a fascinating portrait of a contemporary noble-genius.
Author Bio
George G Szpiro was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Switzerland, and live & work in New York City, Jerusalem, Israel and Villeneuve, Switzerland.
George G. Szpiro is an award-winning author and journalist. A longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily?Neue Zürcher Zeitung, his many books include?Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present?(2010) and?Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation?(2011).
Books
Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve one of the Oldest Math Problems of the World; John Wiley, 2003.
The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think; Joseph Henry Press (The National Academy of Sciences), 2006.
Poincaré’s Conjecture: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles; Dutton, 2007.
A Mathematical Medley: Fifty easy Pieces on Mathematics; The American Mathematical Association (AMA), 2010
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present; Princeton University Press, 2010.
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation; Basic Books 2011
Education
- 1968 - 1972 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, MSc mathematics
- 1973 - 1975 Stanford University, MBA
- 1975 - 1984 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Ph.D. mathematical economics
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