Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles by George G. Szpiro

Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

George G. Szpiro

320 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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With a reclusive and eccentric hero, dramatic turns, and a million-dollar payoff, Poincaré's Prize is the stuff of great fiction. Amazingly, the story unveiled in it is true.In the world of math, the Poincaré Conjecture was a holy grail. Decade af...

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