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Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

George G. Szpiro

June 21, 2007 · Hardcover · Dutton Adult · 320 pp

First edition · ISBN 9780525950240 · English · US · Dewey 510.76 · LC QA43 .S985 2007

Science

Hardcover

Traces the hundred-year effort to solve the Poincaré Conjecture and its successful solution by Grigory Perelman, an impoverished Russian recluse who refused all prizes and academic appointments while solving an array of mathematical conundrums.