Kepler's conjecture : how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world /
Szpiro, George, 1950-
Kepler's conjecture : how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world / Kepler's conjecture : How some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest maths problems in the world George Szpiro. - viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-286) and index.
Cannonballs and Melons -- The Puzzle of the Dozen Spheres -- Fire Hydrants and Soccer Players -- Thue's Two Attempts and Fejes-Toth's Achievement -- Twelve's Company, Thirteen's a Crowd -- Nets and Knots -- Twisted Boxes -- No Dancing at This Congress -- The Race for the Upper Bound -- Right Angles for Round Spaces -- Wobbly Balls and Hybrid Stars -- Simplex, Cplex, and Symbolic Mathematics -- But Is It Really a Proof? -- Beehives Again -- This is Not an Epilogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
"The first and only popular account of one of the greatest math problems of all time, Kepler's Conjecture examines the attempts of many mathematical geniuses to prove this problem once and for all - from Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to math greats Sir Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss, from modern titans David Hilbert and Buckminster Fuller to Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan, who in 1998 submitted what seems to be the definitive proof."--BOOK JACKET.
0471086010 9780471086017
2002014422
Mathematics--Popular works
QA93 / .S97 2003
510
Kepler's conjecture : how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world / Kepler's conjecture : How some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest maths problems in the world George Szpiro. - viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-286) and index.
Cannonballs and Melons -- The Puzzle of the Dozen Spheres -- Fire Hydrants and Soccer Players -- Thue's Two Attempts and Fejes-Toth's Achievement -- Twelve's Company, Thirteen's a Crowd -- Nets and Knots -- Twisted Boxes -- No Dancing at This Congress -- The Race for the Upper Bound -- Right Angles for Round Spaces -- Wobbly Balls and Hybrid Stars -- Simplex, Cplex, and Symbolic Mathematics -- But Is It Really a Proof? -- Beehives Again -- This is Not an Epilogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
"The first and only popular account of one of the greatest math problems of all time, Kepler's Conjecture examines the attempts of many mathematical geniuses to prove this problem once and for all - from Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to math greats Sir Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss, from modern titans David Hilbert and Buckminster Fuller to Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan, who in 1998 submitted what seems to be the definitive proof."--BOOK JACKET.
0471086010 9780471086017
2002014422
Mathematics--Popular works
QA93 / .S97 2003
510