Piergiorgio Odifreddi The mathematical century

the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years

"The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. - In The Mathematical Century, Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the subject. He concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied mathematics. - Each tells the story of an exciting problem, from its historical origins...

Engels | 204 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. [etc.] | 2004

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