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Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
Perfect Rigor A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
Author: Masha Gessen
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world?s greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 1998, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and pr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780151014064
ISBN-10: 015101406X
Publication Date: 11/11/2009
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
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