The Millennium Problems
The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Of Our Time
$37.40
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2003
Summary
In 2000, the Clay Foundation announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the experts, would receive $1 million in prize money. There was some precedent for doing this: In 1900 the mathematician David Hilbert proposed twenty-three problems that set much of the agenda for mathematics in the twentieth century. The Millennium Problems—chosen by a committee of the leading mathem…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465017300 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465017304 |
| Author: | Keith Devlin |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Keith Devlin
Keith Devlin is the Dean of the School of Social Science at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, and a Senior Researcher at the centre for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He is the author of 22 books, one interactive CD-ROM, and over 65 technical research papers in mathematics. His voice is heard regularly on National Public Radio, on such programs as “Weekend Edition,” “Talk of the Nation,” “Science Friday,” “Sounds Like Science,” and “To the Best of Our Knowledge.” His previous books include Life by the Numbers, the companion to a PBS series that aired in April and May, 1998, Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic, and The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible.
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