Poincare's Prize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poincare's Prize write by George G. Szpiro. This book was released on 2008-07-29. Poincare's Prize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The amazing story of one of the greatest math problems of all time and the reclusive genius who solved it In the tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Prime Obsession, George Szpiro brings to life the giants of mathematics who struggled to prove a theorem for a century and the mysterious man from St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman, who fi nally accomplished the impossible. In 1904 Henri Poincaré developed the Poincaré Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. The problem was he couldn’t prove it. A century later it was named a Millennium Prize problem, one of the seven hardest problems we can imagine. Now this holy grail of mathematics has been found. Accessibly interweaving history and math, Szpiro captures the passion, frustration, and excitement of the hunt, and provides a fascinating portrait of a contemporary noble-genius.
Poincare's Prize
Poincare's Prize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poincare's Prize write by George G. Szpiro. This book was released on 2008-07-29. Poincare's Prize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The amazing story of one of the greatest math problems of all time and the reclusive genius who solved it In the tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Prime Obsession, George Szpiro brings to life the giants of mathematics who struggled to prove a theorem for a century and the mysterious man from St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman, who fi nally accomplished the impossible. In 1904 Henri Poincaré developed the Poincaré Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and possibly the shape of the universe. The problem was he couldn’t prove it. A century later it was named a Millennium Prize problem, one of the seven hardest problems we can imagine. Now this holy grail of mathematics has been found. Accessibly interweaving history and math, Szpiro captures the passion, frustration, and excitement of the hunt, and provides a fascinating portrait of a contemporary noble-genius.
Poincaré's Prize
Poincaré's Prize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poincaré's Prize write by George Szpiro. This book was released on 2007. Poincaré's Prize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a reclusive and eccentric hero, dramatic turns, and a million-dollar payoff, Poincare's Prize is the stuff of great fiction. Amazingly, the story unveiled in it is true. >In the world of math, the Poincare Conjecture was a holy grail. Decade after decade the theorem that informs how we understand the shape of the universe defied every effort to prove it. Now, after more than a century, an eccentric Russian recluse has found the solution to one of the seven greatest math problems of our time, earning the right to claim the first one-million-dollar Millennium math prize. >George Szpiro begins his masterfully told story in 1904 when Frenchman Henri Poincare formulated a conjecture about a seemingly simple problem. Imagine an ant crawling around on a large surface. How would it know whether the surface is a flat plane, a round sphere, or a bagel- shaped object? The ant would need to lift off into space to observe the object. How could you prove the shape was spherical without actually seeing it? Simply, this is what Poincare sought to solve.
Poincare's Prize
Poincare's Prize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poincare's Prize write by George G. Szpiro. This book was released on 2008. Poincare's Prize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Poincare and the Three Body Problem
Poincare and the Three Body Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poincare and the Three Body Problem write by June Barrow-Green. This book was released on 1997. Poincare and the Three Body Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poincare's famous memoir on the three body problem arose from his entry in the competition celebrating the 60th birthday of King Oscar of Sweden and Norway. His essay won the prize and was set up in print as a paper in Acta Mathematica when it was found to contain a deep and critical error. In correcting this error Poincare discovered mathematical chaos, as is now clear from June Barrow-Green's pioneering study of a copy of the original memoir annotated by Poincare himself, recently discovered in the Institut Mittag-Leffler in Stockholm. Poincare and the Three Body Problem opens with a discussion of the development of the three body problem itself and Poincare's related earlier work. The book also contains intriguing insights into the contemporary European mathematical community revealed by the workings of the competition. After an account of the discovery of the error and a detailed comparative study of both the original memoir and its rewritten version, the book concludes with an account of the final memoir's reception, influence and impact, and an examination of Poincare's subsequent highly influential work in celestial mechanics.
