The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea

The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe

Donal O'Shea

304 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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Henri Poincaré was one of the greatest mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He revolutionized the field of topology, which studies properties of geometric configurations that are unchanged by stretching or twisting. T...

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