Kepler's conjecture : how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world / George Szpiro.
Material type: TextPublisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0471086010
- 9780471086017
- Kepler's conjecture : How some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest maths problems in the world
- 510 21
- QA93 .S97 2003
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510 STE Accompanying part (Disc) Precalculus : mathematics for calculus / | 510 STE Accompanying part (Disc) Precalculus : mathematics for calculus / | 510 STI Yearning for the impossible : the surprising truths of mathematics / | 510 SZP Kepler's conjecture : how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world / | 510 TAN Applied finite mathematics / | 510 TAN College mathematics for the managerial, life, and social sciences / | 510 TAN Finite mathematics for the managerial, life, and social sciences / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-286) and index.
1. Cannonballs and Melons -- 2. The Puzzle of the Dozen Spheres -- 3. Fire Hydrants and Soccer Players -- 4. Thue's Two Attempts and Fejes-Toth's Achievement -- 5. Twelve's Company, Thirteen's a Crowd -- 6. Nets and Knots -- 7. Twisted Boxes -- 8. No Dancing at This Congress -- 9. The Race for the Upper Bound -- 10. Right Angles for Round Spaces -- 11. Wobbly Balls and Hybrid Stars -- 12. Simplex, Cplex, and Symbolic Mathematics -- 13. But Is It Really a Proof? -- 14. Beehives Again -- 15. This is Not an Epilogue.
"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.
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