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Visions of infinity : the great mathematical problems / Ian Stewart.

by Stewart, Ian, 1945-

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Basic Books, c2013.

Mathematics -- Miscellanea.

Mathematics -- History.

Numbers, Prime.

9780465022403 (hbk.)

0465022405 (hbk.)

x, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-324) and index.

Great problems -- Prime territory : Goldbach Conjecture -- The puzzle of pi : squaring the circle -- Mapmaking mysteries : Four Color theorem -- Sphereful symmetry : Kepler Conjecture -- New solutions for old : Mordell Conjecture -- Inadequate margins : Fermat's Last Theorem -- Orbital chaos : Three-body problem -- Patterns in prime : Riemann Hypothesis -- What shape is a sphere? : Poincaré Conjecture -- They can't all be easy : P/NP problem -- Fluid thinking : Navier-Stokes Equation -- Quantum conundrum : Mass Gap Hypothesis -- Diophantine dreams : Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture -- Complex cycles : Hodge Conjecture -- Where next? -- Twelve for the future.

A celebrated mathematician presents a fascinating history of mathematics as told through 14 of its greatest problems., and explains why mathematical problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole.

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