An edition of Mathematical mountaintops (2001)

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the five most famous problems of all time

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An edition of Mathematical mountaintops (2001)

Mathematical mountaintops

the five most famous problems of all time

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"Casti brilliantly recreates the solutions to the five greatest mathematcal problmes of all time: The four-color map problem, Fermat's last theorem, the Continuum hypothesis, Kepler's conjecture, and Hilbert's tenth problem."--Jacket.

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Language
English
Pages
177

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Table of Contents

The art of the problem
Hilbert's tenth problem
The four-color problem
The continuum hypothesis
The Kepler conjecture
Fermat's last theorem
The magnificent seven.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.

Published in
Oxford, New York
Genre
Popular works.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510
Library of Congress
QA93 .C386 2001, QA43 .C35 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
177 p., [3] p. of plates :
Number of pages
177

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3579583M
Internet Archive
mathematicalmoun00john
ISBN 10
0195141717
LCCN
2002265588
OCLC/WorldCat
47063347
LibraryThing
524217
Goodreads
2221419

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16995110W

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