TY  - BOOK
AU  - Szpiro,George
TI  - Kepler's conjecture: how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world 
SN  - 0471086010
AV  - QA93 .S97 2003
U1  - 510 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Popular works
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -