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

Contributor(s): Szpiro, George G (Author)

ISBN: 9780452289642

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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Pub Date: August 1, 2008

Dewey: 510.76

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 7.90" L x 5.30" W ( 0.75 lbs) 320 pages

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Description: In the world of math, the theorem that informs how to understand the shape of the universe has 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 the modern era.

Review Quotes: ?[Szpiro] turns the abstract mathematics of spheres into a lucid, lovely romantic odyssey.?
?Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind"

?A wonderful history of a great breakthrough.?
?Bud Mishra, professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

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